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When it comes to tools that help you stay informed, I'd say the opposite is true.
If one wants to maintain ignorance, they should have to do so at their own inconvenience.
Which tool is helping us stay informed?
Considering you seem to dislike the whole concept of Bots, isn't the Bot toggle in the Lemmy profile exactly what you want?
It auto ignores all posts and comments made by accounts marked as Bots. Sure, the owner of the account has to correctly mark it, but I feel that can easily be solved by reporting unmarked bots.
But I'm interested, if you would like to expand on it, how would you make a bot opt-in?
The only way I could think of is through PMs, but that would be cumbersome, and generally unfit for purpose, for all the involved parties.
You have no measurement of any bot’s popularity. You’re just making the claim without proof.
Ah, I see. We should just pass all bots through you for approval first.
Sorry, everyone else. I know some of you liked that bot, but wazoobonkerbrain doesn't, so it's switched off due to "popularity reasons". If you want to experience open internet, you'll have to find somewhere else.
Whether they are effective or not is definitely in question, but they are unquestionably intended to be informative. If they irritate you, you have the ability to exercise your right to block them.
You being annoyed at something you don't like isn't a reason to not have it.
Here’s the thread that’s full to the brim with evidence of bias. Read it for yourself instead of listening to the liar that replied to you.
This user is literally lying about what the thread contains! holy shit the level of gaslighting and misinformation is insane! How can you function!?!?!
Yup, I’m the gaslighter, not the person calling the Associated Press leftist.
That thread was filled with people downvoting anyone who even attempted to disagree. It was also full of people claiming bias and then not backing it up with a single source, link to offending pages, etc. so yeah no wonder it was full of people saying they hated it. Anyone who said otherwise (like myself) got fucking reamed.
Here’s the thread that’s full to the brim with evidence of bias. Read it for yourself instead of listening to this liar.
There’s literally not a single link in that thread with any evidence, maybe you should go read it yourself.
how is it irratating. takes up almost no space. sounds to me like folks are angry they think other people will use it.