I’ve recently joined Lemmy and was reminded of this old fact I used to hear about all the time that lemmings will commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs when they migrate (lemmings being the namesake of Lemmy, I think?).
Do lemmings actually do this? Because I think it would be funny if a social media software was named after an animal that’s literally known for mass hysteria / mob mentality.
Are we seriously going to have these shitty, typo-filled, keyword-driven, counter-productive bots here too?
Not yet, and it is not authorised in this community at its current stage, as it’s being tested. The API is unstable and the bot still needs improvement. But as we’d like you to sympathise, all moderators here are volunteers and they can’t keep an eye on every single comment here all the time. What we’re seeking is a minimally-enforcing automod that welcomes new users, deletes duplicate posts, notifies moderators for user reports, and doesn’t allow using specific slur words.
We have to at least attempt for a fix when there aren’t nearly enough mod tools.
Removed by mod
Bad bot