I’ve found that I am. I sometimes write a reply, see that it was posted by an RSS bot, and delete the draft. OP doesn’t exist so what’s the point?
Much less likely.
Though I haven’t seen these RSS bots you complain about. Is this because you’re browsing ‘all’ instead of ‘subscribed’?
I do generally browse All but I see them on communities I’d be subscribed to anyway
/r ?
Whoops lol
I gotta admit reddit had better shorthand
We just call them comms here
Leaving this out of the post body because it’s kind of a side thought: I think RSS bots on Lemmy kind of suck. We get flooded with everything these sites post whether they’re worth reading or not (and most aren’t!)
“Just block the bots” is the suggestion I’m sure many have…but if an RSS bot posts an article, a human is not going to post it again so I’d miss out on the 20% of articles worth reading
Ive got bots blocked.
I have the settings set to not show bot posts.
I immediately block bot posts
Who can tell what a bot is nowadays? There are a few ways but, most folk are not savvy enough, or do not care enough, to make the distinction.
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Why would anyone knowingly reply to a bot? Other than to warn others that it’s a bot.
I can think of one reason. Instead of replying to the poster you can make a comment for the benefit of other readers, that could start a conversation between commenters.
RSS bots definitely get replies. The comments section on Lemmy is often just a space for discussion on what was posted but when it’s a bot, I never want to “start the conversation”
Yes
Not RSS, but we have bots that post some games to !dailygames@lemmy.zip every day. I reply to those for sure. You would miss out on those games if you’d block all bots.
I don’t mind those. It’s really just the articles, like zippybot posting every stupid RPS headline
Absolutely.
Nope. I reply to bots quite frequently. I’m often the only commenter in the thread, but if I have something to say about what the bot posted, I’ll comment.
Often my comments are to make fun of blockchain or LLMs. But if the Hacker News bot posts a link to a blog post on underwater beekeeping and I have an opinion, I’ll post whatever I think adds to the conversation.
For HN (and other social media sites) specifically, it feel like eavesdropping to me lol
Yes because I have blocked and filtered out all the article bots
How can you tell?
Post histories are fairly easy to see- if they have zero comments it’s a dead giveaway.
Also many bots on fedi are obviously labeled as so in their username
Yes. I don’t even look into the post details, just keep scrolling past
Depends entirely on the community.
I have bot posts disabled in my settings so yes I’m less likely to comment on them by default.
