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

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    51 year ago

    I’m worried that people think I’m a bot because I like to post articles and don’t get much discussion usually.

    I’m not sourcing them from reddit though.

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      Yeah, I have that fear so have been throttling back my posting. I wouldn’t worry as the examples I am thinking of are pretty obvious like [email protected]. That instance has a community where you can request communities and a bot starts them. At least in this case, there is a bot that just imports the posts from the relevant sub.

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        It’s so crazy to me, like, why outsource our content to reddit?

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        Yeah, I’m really not a fan of that instance and it prompted me to go so far as to see if Lemmy has a way to block an entire instance at a user level. And sadly the answer to that is no. Though there is an open feature request but the odds don’t seem great of it being picked up because I don’t think the original creator or commenters on the request made a very compelling case. Now though with a lot of what appears to be single purpose instances like that lemmit one, or the big NSFW one popping up and having a ton of related communities getting created all the time it’s getting to be a big chore to constantly block them individually. Especially, I’ve found if you try browsing by all/new, it’s absolutely flooded with those instances.

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        I feel like you just left me an origami unicorn, like in Bladerunner!