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Do people think the reddit scraping bots are useful? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by _jonatan_ to c/[email protected]

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I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy should not try to be a carbon copy of a 20 year-old VC-funded for-profit site with hundreds of millions of users. Lemmy should establish its own identity and play to its strengths.