@news whomever runs the News bot, could you please stop boosting every single reply to every last post? I only want to see the initial News posts in my feed, not all of the replies.
I assume you’re following from Mastodon? Unfortunately that’s how Mastodon works with groups - you see boosts of every single comment on your feed.
You’re better off with a Lemmy or Kbin account if you want to follow groups.
(and for the sake of clarity, this news account you’re following isn’t a bot - it’s a group)
Ahhh. See, I didn’t realize the “@news” I was following on Mastodon was actually a Lemmy group. I though it was specific to Mastodon, and expected it would be a news repeater/aggregator. Didn’t know it would also include all responses to the news posts.
It goes with a larger confusion on my part about how Mastodon works, I guess.
Adding, I found an option in my Mastodon client to hide boosts from my time line. Which solves my original problem. 🙂
Yeah, the way it works with groups is not great. There are news feeds on Mastodon which are probably a better option to follow from there.
Boy, it would sure be funny if users decided to just spam this thread with multiple replies about how it’s not a bot thing but just the way Mastodon works with fediverse threads.
that’s not a news bot, that’s an issue with Lemmy federation. you can create a GitHub ticket for Lemmy or sign up for Lemmy and browse it there, federation really isn’t the best for following posts and/or communities.
