Agreed. Nobody is interacting with the posts either, just taking up space. Iβd prefer less posts with more engagement.
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That's why I unsubed worldnews. Too much bot spam for my liking.
You mean you don't want an update on what's happening in Palestine every 30 seconds?
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Guh! I just did the same. 10:1 all the posts were from that community. Didn't even realize it's all bot-posted.
Here is some engagement.
Gotta call my mom to tell her the happy news! π
Hmm let me try some of that engagement
I don't like it. There's no one on the other end, the reason I'm here.
It feels unnatural to me. We don't need to force interaction when we're all here to do it.
Plus I'm still mostly sorting by new. They clog it up.
Edit: it's impossible to sort by new now, because of all those damned lemmit posts!!!
Just block the bot, i don't see their posts anymore
Yea I was just in the process lol me will figure it out!
Oh look at me all snazzy blocking stuff I must be a real boy!
Go Lemmiwinks! Stop Wikileaks! Sorry guys, I donβt know why this reminded me of that South Park episodeβ¦ I donβt like those reposts eitherβ¦ ppl should focus on new original content.
I definitely heard that in my head before I even opened this lol
I think I have successfully plugged the reddileaks!
I know fr. I'm a 'content creator' but not memes or anything. I suck at those.
I'm writing a whole ass life story for no one to read, so yea were working for sure lol!
Is lemmit a bot instance or something?
It's a reddit repost bot. I think it may be a whole instance, with one repost bot, I'm not really sure.
TLDR Bots can be good, bots can also be bad. We need to find a balance.
I feel the value of Reddit, Lemmy, and any similar platform does not come from the post itself but (a) the interactions within the comments and (b) the sorting based on votes.
These two features make information here reliable and obtaining reliable information becomes more productive.
For example, an article expresses information verified by a single person or a team, but when that article is posted here many people read it and share their opinion. I can go through the comments and determine how bullshit or not that article is. Also, the comments contain quotes, summaries and relevant information which one would have to spend hours researching. Lastly, when multiple articles are posted on a community sorting allows me to find the articles worth my time.
It does not matter if the post was created by a bot, but whether humans interacted with it.
With all that, I would like to agree with some people here that bots can be a threat. If the content they produce overwhelms the humans interacting with the content.
If human content is buried under thousands of bot posts, noone will interact with it. We need lemmings to feel they are valued by their communities, they shouldn't have to compete with emotionless robots.
This is a super well said take.. I like the part about the worth being in the comments. I agree. I'm fine with bots, just not spam, or reposts of a thread that requires some type of engagement with OP themselves.
Also if I sort by all and new, I'd rather not see a million bot posts before I find a real person. Since this is a small community, we are easily overrun by automation. There's definitely a balance to be had.
And some bots I like, like the tldr bot
Sorry but I donβt agree with this logic. Smaller communities are more susceptible to drought. Content is a water supply. I moderate a magazine for The Office (woo woo, shout out) and I bring in content from Reddit as often as I can. Itβs a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.
That's my opinion too. The only thing people come to these type of sites for is the content and community. Link-copying bots improve the former and improve the opportunities for the latter. It's all upsides and no downsides as far as i can see.
I agree, as long as it's link to articles and not copying text posts, it's a good measure to help small communities take off.
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Yes, this has been irking me too! There is enough "real" content here to keep me happy and interacting. I just scroll past the bot stuff now.
Especially within the last few days the content has become way more populated. Even sorting by new, there is usually at least a comment, and that's all I can really ask for. I blocked the lemmit bot cause no one was interacting
I just block the repost bot users/communities.
I don't have a problem with bots mirroring Reddit content as long as it limits itself to not overwhelm Fediverse communities with more content than the people subscribing to it can comment on. Bots should ideally keep an eye on that and throttle themselves on that basis.
I think the lemmy instance that's only for reddit reposts is a great way to go about it. You always know what you're in for if you sub anything there, and it's not taking up space on other servers.
Out of curiosity, what Lemmy instances should I be searching up if I DO want reddit reposts in my feed? I haven't been seeing many myself.
lemmit.online is one I know of. Each community is a reddit board. It pulls the subs via RSS so there are no comments, just the original post.
I'm fine with reposting stuff like News, where it's relatively impersonal and I'm not necessarily concerned with comments.
But I also like having more in depth conversations on the creative stuff. Just having bots post that feels impersonal.
I guess it depends on the magazine.
This is a good viewpoint I think. News is ok. Not sure how you filter that though. Iβd rather have bots pulling news from direct sources whether that be world events, game news etc rather than Reddit.
I was torn at first but then I realized my gut feeling when I see them is to not upvote or comment on them. So why have them??
Other people converse on posts other than the OP's though, so commenting on a bot post isn't worthless. Personally I feel the bot posts are helping, my bot posts have been decently engaging, some have a lot of discussions in them
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I agree, it feels cheap and pointless. If we wanted Reddit content that badly weβd still be on Reddit.
If we wanted Reddit content that badly weβd still be on Reddit.
Idk why you personally are here, but many migrants (myself included) did NOT leave reddit because we dislike reddit's content; we left because the site is controlled an unaccountable Elon/Zuck wannabe whose every decision the last decade has made the site worse. Getting reddit's content (or something close to it) without contributing clicks to Spez's dreams of a big payday is EXACTLY why I'm here.
Reddit addiction is strong.
if it makes ya feel better those bots will die come july
Depending on how the bot is made, you don't need an API to scrape a website, and could be implemented to a specific sub.
Will they? Is Reddit turning off their RSS feeds too?
So we hate 9gags here too?
Everyone everywhere all at once hates 9gag
HAHA NICE ONE HUMAN. IM TOTALLY NOT A BOT
I feel like we need to make the opposite happen. We make great posts that are shared on Reddit. Sure the awards that will be given will only profit Reddit, but watching the mods furiously delete the posts will be enough of a reward⦠or, you know. Spite
i haven't tried this yet, but here you go: https://kbin.social/m/BotIt
edit: wow major brain fart. you DON'T want bots. i thought this was like "can we not just use bots?" my bad
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So far the only users I block are bots that post from reddit. Annoying stuff that is.
Some reposts might make sense, like I wouldnβt mind a bot that reposts from /r/news over here for example. But to crosspost AITA and AskReddit posts is just stupid.
1000% agree.
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