AitA, ELI5 etc. only really works when OP is actually on the platform and can read the comments. Shoveling those via bots into the Fediverse is just spam imho.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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Agreed. Why do we need every single post from Reddit to be migrated to the Fediverse? It would be better to just have a similar community and get actual engagement.
Fuck no, that thing got blocked the moment I saw it. If the actual OP is not there to answer or comment on the advice received, and is fully unaware they even get replies outside of reddit, this whole thing makes zero sense.
Yeah there's a lot less value without the OP there
I agree. It's annoying. It'd be a shame if they all got purged >.>
I understand wanting to replicate chunks of Reddit, but a lot of the bot posts are useless. I’m not inclined to respond to an AITA or ELI5 that’s just a copy paste from a bot.
The person who asked the question isn’t here. They’re on Reddit. The bot is just letting me know that someone asked a question on Reddit. The person, most likely, will have no clue that someone here is replying.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the bots and they’re a two way - copy pasting from reddit to here and copy pasting our responses to reddit, but from what I’ve seen, that’s not the case.
I feel like the bots would be more useful copying posts that don't need the OP
I dislike bot posts from everywhere. I prefer real people.
I agree with you.
I think a lot of the value and entertainment of these text/story-based communities comes from seeing other commenters interact with the post and with each other.
Some of the bots are putting out too much primary content for the number of users in that community. I think they should limit the posts to 1-2/day so that viewers can get concentrated onto those posts and hopefully generate some comments. As the population grows, more posts can be done per day by the bot, or ideally, switch to actual people submitting posts.
1-2/day is probably a good compromise that might even see more engagement
For image related and news related (including sports) posts, yes. Text based, no because the comments/interaction is missing.
I get the idea and it could be good. But my feed gets absolutely flooded by them sometimes, and it clogs everything up
e. Blocking this user/bot specifically has massively helped
The lemmit or whatever bot was the first “user” I blocked here.
It might not have been bad if they’d stuck to news articles, but so much content is more personal in nature and it feels gross to see it botted.
I’m not going to give advice or empathize with a bot who basically just stole someone’s question or story. OP isn’t even here, they aren’t going to see our comments. Just feels like talking about someone behind their back.
One of the things I love about lemmy is how much of the content and conversation is actually authentic.
Those bot posts are spam and need to go away.
Nope, I wish we would just defederate lemmit. I get that lemmy communities are small but lemmy != reddit.
it's pointless because the poster can't even see the comments we leave
Comments aren't just for OP; they're for other lurkers as well
Well reposting something like AITA here is kinda meaningless since the OP isn't here to read the replies
Some of them could make sense to be reposted, but the overwhelming majority of them are useless because nobody is going to respond to them. I'm glad that blocking the bot hides all of these posts.
Not a fan, but it’s inevitable. I just block them as I see them.
I'm sure it's useful to some (hence its existence) but it makes me wish there's way for it to be opt-in rather than opt-out.
If you block the user making these posts all of it will go away though.
I agree for the questions and text-based posts, I don't see a point in copying those out of Reddit since we cant interact with the OP. News and links can be useful in certain cases. I'm currently subscribed to Lemmit's gamedeals and buildapcsales - once their equivalents on Lemmy grows and matures I'll unsubscribe from those Lemmit communities.
Will this also be problem for instances like lemmy.link (example Gaming community) where bots are reading RSS feeds and create posts automatically? I think this is an interesting instance, because it's a fast news aggregator for various topics even though almost only bots are posting.
I don't really mind bots posting news articles as much, that happened all the time on Reddit anyway, it's mainly the posts whose content needs the OP or needs commenters to be worth reading.
I imagine these posts could work as an archive (assuming there will be some reasonable method of searching the fediverse), so on that basis I have nothing against it & think it may actually be useful further down the line. Having said that, I've blocked the bot so I don't have to see it's 0 comments posts in my feed.
Nope. Blocked 'em.
I think I have 2 users blocked, both bots, and that's one of them.
nope blocked them.