I just looked at your mbin instance (in a browser) and I don't see the tags anywhere. Can you show me what it's actually doing because I genuinely do not understand why it's necessary.

I've heard the "just block it" suggestion before on other bots and I did so....but it still adds to the comment count and I find it kind of annoying when it looks like there's a discussion starting and I either find nothing or a bot.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmyverse only works for Lemmy.

Check out https://kbin.melroy.org/tag/memes . On Mastodon you can even use hashtags as feeds, and that's being implemented on Mbin as well AFAIK.

it still adds to the comment count

I don't click if the comment count isn't over 2.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

People really prefer browsing this way? With a tagginator comment between each post on that page and

I still struggle to believe there's not a better way to do this exact same thing without a bot leaving comments

I don't click if the comment count isn't over 2

It's a bummer you have to change habits to accommodate this bot...

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 16 hours ago

Like I said, Mastodon treats it much better. Collections haven't come to Mbin yet either, so hashtags are sort of a stopgap to aggregate subs.

It's a bummer you have to change habits to accommodate this bot...

It's an easy habit to change. Back in the Reddit days of yore you had a pinned AutoMod comment for like every single thread.

I still struggle to believe there's not a better way to do this exact same thing without a bot leaving comments

Well, let's search for one then, eh?