What are your thoughts on bots reposting links to Reddit posts?
It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.
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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.
Sorry that i made you sad
I still support the bots but i see the danger that when they get used too much that it kills a community at the start when they over do it so it should be handled with A LOT OF CARE.
I suggest to reach out to the moderators or make posts adressing the issue in the communities and trying to find solutions for the problem or to ask if the bots are even welcomed.
The problem that caused that they even use the bots should be the small amount of content.
But if the bot content scares people off that is a another problem that should be talked about in the communities.
I think the new mods have a lot of times no real idea what to do so they make desitions because it seemed good at some point.
I personally switched off that i can see the bots so maybe that is why "i dont see the problem"
litterally...
i only realised now that what i wrote may be morally very bad
Edit: i forgot to tell that i think the bots should be very temporary
I'm glad that I got through to you a little bit.
Temporary solutions NEVER stay temporary. Better to rip off the band-aid now before it takes root.