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How do you feel about bots automatically reposting content from Reddit onto Lemmy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I sort by all and new and have seen a fair amount of posts from bots bringing over content from Reddit. A lot of it doesn't have much if any engagement on here and as far as I can tell even if there was it wouldn't cross back and forth between the two platforms.

The communities these bots are posting to seem to have a low amount of subscribers and with the flood of content it seems a bit like a ghost town. Almost like subscribing to the RSS feed of a subreddit.

I'm not up in arms about it. The posts are being made by only a couple of bots into subreddit specific communities (ex. AskReddit) and Lemmy gives you the ability to block communities so this isn't really showing up in my feed anymore.

The only possible issue I could see in the future is if Lemmy communities tried to link with a subreddit's. For example an instance's pc gaming community with /r/PCGaming.

I'm curious to hear how you feel about Reddit content automatically (or even manually) being posted here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good to see widespread deterrence here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's a good idea. Pull the content from a centralized source and fediverse it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do i see who is a repost bot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You will know it when you see it, the developer is open about what their doing. It’s not a bad thing.

[–] assembly 1 points 2 years ago

I think it depends on the content. I like that breaking news like the Ukraine and Russia stuff gets posted so we can consolidate all of the updates from the fediverse and Reddit but don’t have an interest in other bot items. Some memes are good but I’m on the fence with those.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, part of the issue with leaving reddit is the loss of good posts and comments from there to search for.

With the post bots, some of that will end up federated, and eventually searchable. I'm okay with that.

I just wish the bots were focused on better content. I'm seeing a lot of stuff like AITA, but not much like askhistorians, and none of the in depth comments that are often the truly valuable stuff

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just so you know there is an Ask Historians community. You likely just need to search it so it becomes linked with the instance you are in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

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