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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    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.

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      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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        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).

  • @magnetosphere
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    I’m not in favor of it at all. If a human user wants to link to something interesting/relevant, fine, but I’m not excited about bots spamming links.

    • @impulse
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      That bot is an absolute menace. Often I come across a thread that would probably interest me, then I see 0 comments and the standard bot message and move on.

      It also feels like it is really spamming those threads, which does not help the situation.

      Personally, I would love to see it removed.

      • @GlitzyArmrest
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        41 year ago

        Highly recommend just blocking the bot you’re referring to.

  • dedale
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    Harmful. It’s noise pollution. It dilutes human contribution and makes it harder to engage with other people.

    • GunnarRunnar
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      Yeah, at least if it’s everything. I don’t necessarily mind if content from Reddit is being recycled to here, as long as it’s sparingly selected. By a human or maybe by a bot if the content passes through certain thresholds (X amount of upvotes or something, idk).

      • dedale
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        I say allow it if it can be opted out. Having a ‘repost’ or ‘bot’ tag, and a filter would solve it for me.
        But it might be a lot of work to implement.

        • planetaryprotection
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          21 year ago

          Lemmy actually has this feature already. Accounts can mark themselves as a bot and also whether they see bot accounts. Because of that, I can’t imagine it would be a lot of work to implement on kbin.

          • Squibbles
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            Yeah you can filter out bot accounts but presumably there maybe other types of bot posts that might be relevant or interesting. I’m still so new to Lemmy that I don’t know yet so I’m hesitant to block them all like that

          • dedale
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            That’s pretty cool. If it works for threads as well as messages, it does solve one of my main gripes with reddit.

  • kratoz29
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    271 year ago

    I don’t like them.

  • @Candelestine
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    261 year ago

    Pointless spam. If you’re going to dig content from somewhere, maybe pick someplace we haven’t all already been.

  • @Cybermass
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    241 year ago

    I fucking hate it and I wish it would stop, links to literally anything other than Reddit, if I wanted to open Reddit all the time I would just reinstall Reddit.

    • @Little8Lost
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      41 year ago

      in your profile/settings you can turn off to see bot posts.

      I think every bot that fills a place with cheap stolen content is more there to have some content for new people that they dont feel lost.
      So i think they are good until there is enough content and then i think it would be okay to repost the top of the week every week.

      • @Cybermass
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        51 year ago

        I’m fine with repost bots that actually REPOST.

        If it’s literally just a title and a link to Reddit with to copy/paste in the text field or anything then it’s trash and it’s completely useless.

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    deleted by creator

    • @Something_Complex
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      Tbh same, but I think it will be useful to search for things and not have to go to Reddit

  • Mindlight
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    211 year ago

    one thing that I’ve noticed the last week when using Lemmy is that content is slowly coming along but the discussions are somewhat lacking.

    Reddit offers a shitload of topics and content but the real reason we were there was for the comments and the discussions.

    Bots reposting material can be a way to artificially secure the constant flow of topics but we need to throw some gasoline on the discussion bonfire…

    • Maximilious
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      When 90% of the comments are sarcastic or jokes like Reddit I can’t call that discussion or engaging. It’s noise just like all of the reposts and duplicate content.

      I’ve been on kbin (the fediverse) for over a week and I feel the opposite of your sentiment. The content was lacking but discussion is A+. Content is definitely picking up steam now, but I don’t want the fediverse to be a reddit clone.

      • @scottywh
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        21 year ago

        Reddit has really become overrun with the garbage comments in recent years.

        It’s like all of the sudden everyone decided they were a comedian and reddit threads were the place to test their new material.

        It really has been a huge piece of what’s been killing the appeal for me recently.

        • Drusas
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          21 year ago

          I really hope the fediverse isn’t going to be completely overrun with “this”, “this is the way”, “fuck around and find out”. FFS, people, try to have an original thought.

    • Doll_Tow_Jet-ski
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      I’m hoping it will happen naturally. I am inclined to think those of us who left reddit early are less lurkers than the users who will leave later. That means most of the users who left reddit early in the blackout are the more active users. Still, we need to double down on our activity to get things going here. It reminds me of a message on mastodon when the twitter exodus happened. There was encouragement to comment on toots, even if it was something small, just to make the OPs feel they were being heard/read. We should strive for the same here, specially considering there might be another wave of users coming this way after the 30th.

    • Drusas
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      I’ve been making a conscious effort to reply to posts I find interesting, even if I’m just adding a sentence or two and not the most engaging of content. At least it helps get things started, I think.

      My problem is that I’m experiencing a bug wherein I don’t get notifications when people reply to me unless they @ me, so I can only see if somebody has by going back and looking at my own comments through my profile. I assume that’ll eventually be fixed, but if others are experiencing the same bug, that will be a huge drag on discussion.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝
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    I’ve left subs that seem to be largely a bot reposting Reddit content. The posts seem to get no comments and it all feels a bit empty and soulless. Plus, if we want to be something other than a straight Reddit clone then copying Reddit posts over here doesn’t seem the way to do it.

    • livus
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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.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝
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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.

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

        • Squibbles
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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!

  • @squigglemonster
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    I think it might be okay in the early stages of a community when they’re trying to grow a user base, “build it and they will come” sort of thing. But spamming more content than the community can keep up with is just annoying. I think they should be tweaked to only post a certain number of times per day so there’s a chance to get some meaningful engagement on each thread.

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      I think the best solution would be to have an API affordance for it. Have some sort of historical boolean field that lets you import the content but keeps it from showing up in feeds.

      That’s way you can move your community’s history over to a new home without drowning out other content

  • iByteABit
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    There’s no reason to comment on a conversational post where the OP doesn’t exist

  • @Dark_Blade
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    111 year ago

    I hate it. Rather than filling this place up with junk, we should have users post what they want to post.

    Doesn’t even have to be original, really; just…no botspam.