I have seen some people complaining about it, but I think its useful.
you can’t rip people off their habits with a snap of a finger. The bot provides a bridge until there’s more user generated content. same with lemmit.online.
In time, maybe their use will decrease and become irrelevant, but that’s not the current state of things.
It seems interesting. It’s weird that individual feeds don’t get their own communities.
I haven’t seen much from the rest of the instance, but I blocked the bot a while ago. It’s a bot that drives engagement to other sites by posting nothing but plain links. I don’t see how that’s supposed to be helpful or useful 🤷🏻♂️
That’s like, all of Lemmy. What are you expecting?
It’s not though, is it? You’re replying to a question post here, in a community for questions. A significant portion of Lemmy is communities for questions, media, memes, and tech conversations.
Of the posts that share links, a decent number of those are either posted with a summary to encourage discussion, or are at least posted by a human that you can speak to. A headline and link to another site, posted by a bot, does nothing to encourage interaction with Lemmy. It’s literally a link that points to content somewhere else
Okay I was being hyperbolic. The vast majority of Lemmy is links.
The linked content itself drives engagement.
The point of posting it on Lemmy is to surface interesting content via community votes and drive discussion.
