Unpopular Opinion

This is such a bad take. Lemmys barrier to entry is already staggering, from picking an instance, figuring out how what and where communities are, finding ones with any engagement and sorting through dead duplicates, filtering hexbear and tankies, to blocking out porn and other stuff you may find undesirable. With bots flooding communities, Lemmy sometimes feels like a shell left behind from other social networks. Just block them? Sure I can, and may succeed playing bot whack-a-mole, but not everyone will bother, and the discussion stifling effect bots are having will remain.

Lemmy is small but growing, and content bots have a place, but maybe that place should be gathered into a bot instance that can be content surfed at will and need not require manual blocking from every individual. All these quirks of Lemmy are stifling it.

Lemmy could go a mile with content and community tagging and grouping functionality. The fractured state of federation and bot infestation, if it's to be a feature, needs fleshed out tools to easily moderate in an additive way, rather than manual filtering out. It needs to be useful and functional from account creation and improve with filter work, not start as a bot ridden fractured mess and get manageable after some filter work.