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Maybe your instance is federating with someone new that does a lot of bot posting? Sometimes all it takes is one person on the instance to join a very active bot community and next thing you know members are seeing a ton of new bot posts.
Editing to add- On Lemmy you can turn off viewing bot accounts completely in your account settings if you don't ever want to see them.
Re turning off bot accounts, keep in mind labeled bots probably serve a specific purpose. So turning off bots can result in a poorer user experience.
For example I have bot accounts that post weekly discussion threads for TV shows or discussion threads for films.
If you turn off all bots then you'll never see these discussion threads. (I've seen this happen, users starting a duplicate discussion thread because they hid all bot accounts.)
I would recommend blocking bot accounts you find annoying vs blocking all bots.
This is an excellent point. Thanks for taking the time to add this!
If you're using the Boost app, there is a toggle for it. You can find it by going to your profile and hitting the "Edit" button.
They are meant to be self reporting/labeled by the creator. There is also a setting for that in the account page.
Note that these options will be slightly different to change on the webui but it can be done even if you aren't a Boost user.