@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.
Following Lemmy on Mastodon is a truly terrible idea. If you subscribe to a community here on Mastodon, you will get every post in every thread. Your Masto feed will be an unreadable pile of out-of-context garbage. There’s no over-zealous bot. That is just how it works.
Kbin allows you to use both Lemmy and Mastodon but doesn’t crowbar them into the same feed. That might be your best bet.
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. 🙂
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.