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?
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Block the bot if you don’t want to see it. It’s just one bot for all of it.
I find it useful. I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic, but there’s still content getting posted there that you won’t find here just yet. Yeah, it’s not good for text posts, as they really need the comments, but image and link posts are still useful even without comments.
Lemmy comments still work though, so engagement is possible, just doesn’t really seem to be happening.
Yeah, that’s what I ended up doing, but
Lemmy comments still work though, so engagement is possible, just doesn’t really seem to be happening
This is what I don’t understand. Since the posts come from Reddit and you can’t actually talk to the OP, the Lemmy community just ends up not taking off. Even if someone does post it might get buried under all the rest of the posts
To be honest I like it, it makes sense to me.
I go on Lemmy to my community X - there is 3 posts last week, 2 of them have any comments.
My curiosity is not satisfied, I go to Reddit, same community X - 300 posts this week, all with comments. Of course I’m going to keep coming to red
My goal is to ditch Reddit - so I can only go on Lemmy, I can live with lower number of comments but what kick-starts the community and and discussion is content. With lemmit I’ve got BOTH content from Reddit and Lemmy in one place, no need to go on Reddit. Double win for me, more content on Lemmy and less people go to Reddit. Optimally when the community on some topic on Lemmy grows substantially the bot should be turned off.
I just blocked the bot so it didn’t fill my feed.
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My AITA fix wasn’t getting filled here because all the assholes are still on Reddit. Once that becomes harder and lemmy becomes easy then all the assholers and assholees will hopefully start coming on here.
This is simultaneously funny and terrible, because it is almost certainly how that is going to work. Unless someone starts a “/wibta” (“would I be the asshole”) for people to make up imaginary situations. It might not be as good, but at least it wouldn’t mean inviting over a lot of assholes.
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I am not sure how I feel. It sounds like some people like it, which is great. There’s no particular reason not to do it, as long as no copyright issues arise. If it’s keeping people off Reddit, that’s an added bonus, but “people like it” is enough for me.
Personally, though, I would like to see the fediverse genuinely replace Reddit, not just duplicate it and absorb its traffic. In my experience, that works best when you actually move on from the thing you’re trying to replace, rather than looking back at it all the time. Right now, a lot of us (including me) are still trying to process the break from Reddit, so we’re going to be thinking and talking about it a lot. It just seems like in the long term, it might be unhelpful to have that direct pipeline to Reddit, when we might otherwise just not think about it anymore.
Yeah it doesn’t maker sense to me, either. When there is one in my feed I just block the account and scroll on.
Reddit is the largest aggregator in the world. Why not use that power to generate content while lemmy is growing? It’s going to take time to build a large enough user base to provide consistent content. Reddit will bring people here faster
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.
I blocked the bot. Fixed my feed instantly
