Option 2 is cool in regards to letting users decide... Option 3 is my second choice that said.

That said I ultimately agree with option 1. An instance dedicated to just regurgitating content from another user-generated site is just not a good thing. There is 0 value to those posts on Lemmy, instance wide imo.

There is 0 way to interact with the posts in a meaningful way and they just fill up 'new' with crap from somewhere else.

I don't like the nuclear option of defederation, but I really just see that instance as a hindrence to the existence and natural growth on Lemmy.

If you you don’t want anyone else on your server to be exposed to this bot/instance, you should convince your admin to defederate from lemmit.online. Since there are no other users on here, there will be no harm done.

Reading the FAQ I have changed my mind to defederate.

I originally felt that option 2 would be the best since it would give us the most freedom and power.

However there is another important perspective. If there was a spammer in a community, then a solution isn’t just to “not look”, since it negatively affects other members of the community who might look. It’s our responsibility to make the community better (obviously there is some subjectivity to that).

Another point is that bandwidth is not free. This is a choice that clutters up the community and lessens the ability for others to communicate.

Finally there is no loss of information. If people want Reddit posts they can go there.

I also changed to option 1.

Yeah after reading their instance sidebar, I'm changing my vote to option 1.

I agree with option 1. Lemmy is not Reddit and it should not be a Reddit copycat. These types of bots have no place in Lemmy and we need to deferate with instances that promote these kind of bots.

Defederate all the way