So one of the selling points I’ve seen tossed around for Lemmy is it’s absence of a Karma system. Keeping that in mind can anyone explain why Lemmy wouldn’t adapt a more automated/bot style approach to increasing content. What I had in mind was a system that shocked Pikachu meme used some sort of scraping method or web crawler method that could produce continually fresh posts to communities like the NFL community or even offer a new News type of community that is fed every news break from a defined set of sources. Hell Lemmy even offers the ability to create its own automated front page of the internet instance that exclusively for those who enjoy the automated content provided. If it gained traction there would be no limit to the specific communities it could support. For example if there were a NFL auto posting bot why not one thst serviced each individual team’s community.

The biggest ckmplaint in reddit back in the day was the increase of bot activity generating reposts. With Lemmy tho, there already are natural reposts already happening between common communities present across multiple instances.

I very much enjoy how differently Lemmy and it’s user base is from the trash pile reddit became. The reddit comment threads after the exodus are all just regurgitated memes and hivemind friendly bot responses. Compared to Lemmy where it’s been rare if at all to find anyone farming for karma or pandering to the masses.

This is all just second hand understanding of the digital world. Thank you in advance for anyone whontakes the time tonread this and comment🍻

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    I’ve done something like this, with RSS feeds. Read [email protected] to see the existing communities, and how to add a feed to an existing community.

    The concern about spam is real. A lot of these exist, for example one for Hacker News and a whole instance for Reddit, and a lot of people including myself don’t like those. I agree with you that it’s a good idea but it’s necessary to be careful that it remains a useful seed of content and not an overwhelming spew.