It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.

  • @Geek_King
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    641 year ago

    The main thing driving my enjoyment of Lemmy is the people and real responses. Having bots just copy and paste existing posts from Reddit with no human behind the post isn’t driving engagement. I haven’t seen a single reddit repost by a bot get a single comment or community interaction at all.

    I’m against it, it feels like a garbage in garbage out type of situation.

    • @s38b35M5
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      1 year ago

      There’s a lemmy community I used to be subbed to with a mod that decided to grab every recent and new post from /r/ and repost here. No comments on 4 of 5 posts, and one or two on the remaining 1 of 5. New posts every 3 to 5 minutes. Many readers thought it was a bot, and on a meta post in the sub, a different mod said they aren’t a bot, they’re doing a great job, and we should block the mod.

      Did that and unsubbed. Now my “new” feed isn’t full of reposted, zero-engagement posts.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Yes, when I see my feed have 5 or 6 posts in a row from the same poster within a few minutes and with no discussion, not even an initial comment or indication as to why someone thought it worth posting, I block that person…

        When the same article is posted to, for example, any Lemmy community on any instance with the word ‘news’ in it, that duplication grinds my gears.

        Now that I’ve been here a bit, I realise that it’s the discussion that is way better than the post, (normally) and there’s no faking that (yes, yes, chatgpt etc etc, but no, pleeeease).