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I vote block the account.

Let the users block the bot.

I think it simply makes sense to leave it up to users to block this if they don't like it. This approach allows for folks to achieve what they want without forcing this decision onto others.

I'm in favour of defedding. It's just Reddit spam that's not needed here. If people find interesting things over on Reddit that also belong here, that's one thing, but there's no reason to make a 1:1 copy. Let Lemmy be Lemmy and let Reddit be Reddit. They don't have to be the same thing.

Has anyone noticed @linkbot@lemmy.link as well? Is it doing the same thing?

I’m from lemmy.world. What is this bot you’re talking about? I haven’t had the misfortune of running into it. What makes it spam?

Edit: Thanks everyone for your helpful answers! Based on the responses below, I believe you should definitely defederate.

I vote to ban the bot.

I vote for the user block option.

I haven’t noticed it yet, but if you feel it’s a big enough problem, I’d say block the account for now. Defederating feels like a more serious punishment that I’d reserve for multiple bad actors.

Did lemmy.ca already defederate? I clicked the link to the link to block the bot it but it shows nothing there. Yet if I sign out, I can see it.

I think option 3.

Here's a link to their FAQ in case anyone is interested

Using the All+New sorting is practically useless because of 🫘 and equivalent noise whether this bot is alive or dead. From what I've seen New is only useful when combined with Subscribed or Local. On the basis of that I wouldn't take any action since people who might want to read this stuff won't be able to, and we'll not see a dramatic improvement to All+New.

Now that I know it exists, I might subscribe to several Canadian communities on lemmit to keep track of stuff that's not reflected here yet. Will probably repost what's interesting to our communities.

Defed for sure. If it provided a valuable service, some communities would have made it an official bot by now and I don't see that happening anywhere.

option 3 is my choice

I vote to defederate.

I don't want to see spam and that is in great part why I validated my email and joined this instance. The great thing about being on Lemmy is I can go to another instance to view that content if I want to see it. I like having a variety of instances with different moderation levels.

The way I see it, the user is still in control. I'm on other instances; I'll still see the content if I want. Here, I want moderation curated towards user engagement. I left Reddit to avoid low-quality bot posts and I preferably don't want to think about bots all the time. It's exhausting and I don't want to play whack-a-mole. What I want to see are the things people are interested in straight from the users. I don't need doomscrolling reddit feeds sourced by bots again.

Edit for clarity, I hope!