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Jerboa

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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.

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Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project.

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Is there a way to filter out bot posts? (self.jerboa)
submitted 1 year ago by UnmeltedByRain to c/[email protected]
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Not comments are fine, but I don't want to see posts without real users behind them.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What is your definition of bot? Even if you toggle the "I'm a bot option" off you can still access the API using a programming interface. Thus you are able to run a bot even if its account has not been defined as a bot.

It is probably possible to create a client (like Jerboa or Lemmy-UI) that is able to hide messages from accounts that are defined as a bot. But if a account hasn't been defined as a bot, its messages will still show up, even if they are written by an automated script.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. And bot accounts tagged as such are probably actually helpful bots, unlike the bots masquerading as people.