So, I get that someone is trying to populate this community with posts using the lemmit.online bot. And that the vast majority of us are coming from Reddit. And that AITA is a staple community that we’re used to seeing in our feeds.

However, it seems like that just copying content into an otherwise empty community is just feeding a sterile wasteland. There is almost no engagement on the copied posts, and worse: I think it will smother any actual new content that gets posted in this wasteland of copied content. (I stand corrected, after trying to post this there I found out that only mods have priveleges to post. It’s worse than I thought, and I’ll probably just block it from my feed if it’s only a Reddit echo chamber)

What do you think, AITA?

  • @rtxn
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    1 year ago

    NTA.

    AITA is not about sharting funny content and then asking “am I an asshole or what”, it’s a way for the OP to invite (hopefully) honest and civilized discussion and criticism about their actions, without risking verbal abuse or being downvoted to hell. When a bot reposts an existing question without the OP’s knowledge, it loses the line of communication between OP and the community and the entire point of an AITA post. Populating the fediverse with content is important, but compromising the entire reason that content exists is not the way to build a community.

    edit: sharing, not sharting. I’m not changing it because funny.

    • @jiji
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      51 year ago

      Tbh “sharting” is pretty apt for what a bot reposting AITA posts is doing lol.

      • @Obscura
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        71 year ago

        Worried for you if your autocorrect is ready to go with sharts. 😂

      • @Crackhappy
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        31 year ago

        Yep if you’re sharting instead of sharing them YTA. ;)

    • @Rhoeri
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      21 year ago

      I would near guarantee that 90% if not more of that subreddit is fake posts for karma farming.