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These bots merely advertise for reddit. They drown the All feed in zero engagement posts, hiding actual activity.
Experienced users might be able to handle this (although the question persists why one unresponsible bot admin should be able to force thousands of users to take action), but new Lemmy users will not look for a fix. They will leave and never come back.
These bots make Lemmy a worse and shallow copy of reddit. Please stop running them, or make it in instances which do not federate their content to the rest of Lemmy.
If I tell you that I've been running this system for two days already, have you noticed and/or found yourself "drowned" by anything?
Yes, every time I try to use the All feed, I'm presented with new communities which consist of nothing but zero-engagement bot-posts.
Every time, I can choose between wasting more time on blocking them or abandoning that Feed altogether.
Granted, not your bots as far as I can tell, but two days is not a long time either. Give it more time and into more hands, abuse will happen.