What's your take on the bots here?

[remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world]

For example: Funzobot, News bot, and Finance bot.

[bongles@lemm.ee]

When I used imgur, it had 2 bots, this time last year and a repost detecting bot. I thought that was useful, and the userbase over time got sick of the repost one.

When I used reddit, with all of the different subreddits, every dork on there felt like they needed to create a bot for any niche or joke but they made it opt out, instead of in. That was excessive and i found it annoying.

I hope Lemmy stays closer to the first example, or no bots at all.

[brett@feddit.org]

I always enjoyed browsing 'new'. Both here and on that other site you might know of.
Personally i dont like the bots here. They just clutter the timeline IMHO. I visit 'social media' for a feed which is pre-curated by humans. I'd rather use RSS if i wanted a constant stream of news articles without curation by others. The problem i see on lemmy is that in rare cases the bot posts still get user engagement which i miss out on if i just outright filter the bots out.

Its nothing i lose sleep over and the situation as is... is alright i guess. But if i had anything to say and had a choice i would outright ban them. But tbh i didnt think through the consquences.