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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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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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[–] PriorProject 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like this setting would be a lot more useful if it was per community. Plenty of sports communities use bots to set up gameday discussion threads that I don't want to miss, but I DO want to miss the ocean of garbage reddit reposts drowning out actual human interaction.

Which isn't a critique of your very relevant suggestion, but rather a lament that people think that communities somehow get better when robots are posting junk no one reads.

[–] UnmeltedByRain 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the kind of thing I'm thinking too. Long run it's not a big deal, because I can just scroll past the bot posts.

[–] PriorProject 1 points 1 year ago

The volume of certain bots is unscrollable though. The world news and botit bots generate as much post volume as the rest of the lemmyverse combined if you exclude like the top-five highest volume communities.

I feel like you either have to block the accounts, block all bots, or have your feed overrun by them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If it doesn't exist: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

You can create an Enhancement request.