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Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy found docs for the rate limit options? I'm running on a free Oracle Cloud VM and am wondering if there are any default settings I should consider changing.
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Unfortunately all subreddit mirror requests to that bot are auto-approved, and there is no subreddit subscriber limit. That means that very large subreddits with already-active Lemmy communities get mirrored. That causes unnecessary duplication and a lot of noise due to frequent posts to the subreddits.

That said, I actually subscribe to a few of that bot’s communities for tiny, niche subreddits (like with 5k Reddit subscribers) that I followed. I use it because it will take time for Lemmy to reach adoption capable of sustaining those very specialized communities. It’s useful for links (less so for discussions.)


The docs say:

Bot Account: Enable this if you are using a script or program to create posts automatically

So a bot account that doesn’t self-report would be a violation of policy and should be banned from the entire instance by the admin if discovered.

To be clear: I’m personally not against useful bots. But a “Bot accounts cannot post to this community” mod option would just allow the mods to choose for their community.


There really should be a “Bot accounts cannot post to this community” mod option.


Discovering bot accounts
I've recently seen bot accounts being used in various discussions, like: - `@[email protected]` - `@[email protected]` - `@[email protected]` - `@[email protected]` It seems like there should be a way to discover these bots without having to first see them in use, but the Lemmy User search doesn't offer an option to return `bot accounts` and (obviously) doesn't provide useful results when searching "bot". Is there some way to discover them that I'm missing? Maybe using the [Lemmy API](https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/Person.html#bot_account)? Failing some sort of automated curation, does a "Use(ful/less) Bots" community where bot authors may announce their bot exist?
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