From what I can gather, a bot creates communities based on subreddits recommended to them by users, then fills said communities with posts from Reddit. I don’t really get the point of this, as 90% of posts it seems are just copied from Reddit but without any of the actual engagement, as the OP didn’t post it and no one is commenting. It just seems like clutter and a waste of space, but it’s also all over my feed. Anyone else confused?
No, you got it. There’s some people on Lemmy who want to keep seeing Reddit content, but don’t want to go to Reddit so they can keep “protesting.” They’ll make the argument that seeding the communities with the content will help jump start engagement on Lemmy, but this is mostly b.s. as I haven’t seen much engagement with the bot posts. It also ignores the main thing that made Reddit what it was: people. These bots only know what the people left on Reddit want to see. Not what the people who left want to interact with. Bots can’t create a community, they can only help human people, you know like Ted Cruz, maintain them.
I block as many of the bots as I can when I see them. If it gets out of hand, I’ll be dropping Lemmy, too.