Yesterday I saw a post about a repost bot automating a feed from Reddit. That’s not what an RSS bot is, of course, you can RSS from all kinds of different places on the web, but after seeing that post I started to really look at the poster of things which show up in new and at certain times of day it is an overwhelming amount of RSS bots for things like Qatar state owned media Aljazeera and others.

Rimu is apparently working on a Piefed feature to filter them all out, but that can’t be consistent and I feel like it doesn’t really disinsensitivize them, either.

If it’s going to fill up the feeds then I think I’ll just downvote them every time regardless of content. Is that rude or am I justified on this?