It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.
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.
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.
Harmful. It’s noise pollution. It dilutes human contribution and makes it harder to engage with other people.
I made a bot to repost official announcements for a game I play. Ideally, a day will come where the company makes the announcements themselves on Lemmy and my bot is no longer needed, but until then, the owner of the sub has granted me permission to use my bot.
My bot makes about one or two posts per day. Other people in this thread have mentioned certain bots making posts every couple minutes, which many people would find quite excessive.
They’re banned in this community, because we’d like it to stay an actual community of amazing people
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.
I don’t like them.
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.
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.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.
Not a fan, fuckin dislike it immensely tbh.
I block every repost bot I find. I don’t care about reddit’s content. If I wanted that, I’d go there. Create content for the community here, not just noise. Most bot posts don’t even get any engagement because their posts are soulless.
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.
They are bad content. If I wanted the garbage hose from reddit, I would have just stayed on reddit, but I don’t.
My vote is on an instance level ban on all reddit repost bots.
you can turn off that you see pot posts in your profile/settings
I dont think that those bots will be as dominant as now in the future when more community content comes in. When that time comes i think even the mods know that they getting more and more obsolete
Ok, Now Lemmy Explain:
Suppose that the bot was temporary, as you say, then why would anybody bother making original content here when the bot is just going to drown them out? At what level of “community content” is this thing going to be stopped?
In time, it would just get more and more entrenched as nobody would actually be making real original content here. It’s like a drug addiction, we will be dependent on the bot to feed us from reddit, and it will prolong the life of reddit indefinitely like a parasite.
We like Lemmy because the people and community here are thoughtful and kind, unlike the horrible discourse at reddit, but how do you know that bringing the reddit directly here would not make people become spiteful and argumentative redditors again? When will we stop being redditors?
Suppose the reddit migration on July 1st does happen, do you think they would be impressed that they left reddit only to find the new place to be exactly like reddit but with less activity? No, they will all just go back to that burning house, and all of this will have been for nothing.
I’m sorry that I’m getting emotional about this, but this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
That NLE opening caught me off-guard lmfao. Cheers
Well, need a new vocabulary for a new place. Again, my stance has been consistent: We are not redditors anymore, we do not belong there, Lemmy should be a place for people, we keep the good of reddit and kick out the bad, and bots are certainly not people.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pointless spam. If you’re going to dig content from somewhere, maybe pick someplace we haven’t all already been.
