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Looking for non-bot news community (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by coffee@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

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Hi all,

New to the instance but not to Lemmy in general, I've moved over from lemmy.world due to their federation/blocking policy and hope I'll find my new home here.

Now, one thing I've been looking for anywhere in the fediverse is a news (worldnews) community where bot posts are not allowed. Is anyone aware of such a project?

I know that I can block bots or hide bot accounts altogether, but that's not really helping - the bots are still there, other users see their posts, and there's no incentive to post the same news to the same community by actual users, meaning I'm missing out.

What I'm mightily annoyed with are that bots spam communities with just about every story in the books, from actual newsworthy events to clickbait rubbish, and of course they don't have any actual interest in the topic nor means to engage in discussions.

So I'd love to have a place where actual humans post articles they personally consider useful, to have higher quality content as well as engagement. Curated news, in a way.

Is anyone aware of such a community, be it here on the instance or elsewhere?

Thanks a bunch!

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorting by top over the last 6 to 12 hours Will show you the comments that get a discussion. And even if they started with a bot post the discussion is interesting.

I would be interested in some Lemmy accessible way of building a slashdot, a hacker News, a soylentnews, a fark, with one queue for submissions, and then a moderated community for accepted submissions.

[–] coffee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Ah interesting, I didn't explore those possibilities yet. Usually I'm sitting on /new, but that's definitely one way to go about finding active discussions only. Will give it a try over the next couple days, thanks!

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What federations are they blocking?

[–] nocturne213@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They just blocked part of dbozer (sp) because of their piracy communities.