How do you feel about bots automatically reposting content from Reddit onto Lemmy?

I find it annoying, much like when people copy Twitter posts onto Mastodon. I come here to get away from that stuff.

It's the chicken/egg problem, with no content there's no community, but with no community there's no content. Even reddit at the very beginning had bots & admins with alt accounts reposting things from digg to get the ball rolling.

So news, articles, memes links I'm fine with them copying over here, because that's content, not the community. Anything to build up content quickly helps build the community. But things like askreddit questions or other self posts should be left on reddit, that's their identity, not ours

If I wanted reddit posts I would go back on Reddit. Posting a couple here and there I think is okay but not so much for flooding the place.

I understand the why to copy content from Reddit , even more if it's eg.: a community branching out from there to here, or people who are dissatisfied there trying to rebuild here. But those things ought to be done manually to build community, otherwise you are just building up yet another glorified aggregator.

As of right now I don’t care because it’s in my feed for only a few communities that are trying to get started. I don’t think it’s necessary for most communities though, and detrimental to the platform for larger communities.

Not a fan. If it gets too much I might temporarily block those instances.

Also I have some concerns that it is being reposted with the username of the OP attached. Basically taking that user's right to be forgotten away.

I think its okay to seed content from reddit to establish the tone of a new community, but I'd rather people just do 10-20 posts by hand to prevent spam. If I had bots to do it though I'd probably save myself the time and use a bot too.

After the community has a bit of seed content I think it should stop.

I get that it SUCKS when it spams on new. But give some understanding to all the people trying to start from nothing on lemmy right now so that we can have a thriving community over here (and not all go back to reddit in boredom).

Not a huge fan, but I understand the thinking.

My issue with it, is let's say there's a self post and I respond to it. Knowing it's a bot post, I still want to contribute to the community, but I know I'm unlikely to get a response. It's possible it could start a conversation here though.

I get its a way to fill the communities with content, but it feels like a half baked attempt. Or an inflation of interactions.

Not sure the right route in these early days though.

I'm probably just a loon and making a mountain out of a molehill, but this type of automation bothers me. Whoever sets it up can easily script with bias to filter out content they personally disagree with. I understand humans do this naturally without botting, but making it automated changes the speed and reach to a degree I'm not comfortable engaging with.

I think that's a bad idea. The bots will post al lot of posts but the community here won't be big enough to have many comments on the posts. Essentially it will turn this forum into an empty wasteland.

0 out of 10. Wouldn’t recommend.

I like the community for the interaction and not the bare content. Cross-post from Reddit just makes me not to comment because I don’t want to talk to a bot.

I'm not a fan, because I don't want a Reddit 2.0. Reddit is still there if you want it, though. I wanna see what this will become. I like it so far, I don't think it needs help in that way.

The same way about chatgpt being used to generate messages here, it's low effort content and I prefer actual human interaction instead of mindless copy pasting. If you think something is worth posting, find the source and make the submission yourself, just blindly copying from reddit is... meh

I have moved a couple tutorial posts of mine to their respective communities, but the mass reposting is obnoxious and pointless.

Unpopular opinion: I think it's a good idea. Fediverse needs two things right now, content and a solid and easy to use UI. Without those it'll never pull people over from the already established communities. So temporarily I think yes more content is good even if it's copied over

I think that bots that repost automatically are lame, personally, but as long as they are clearly tagged and I have the ability to ignore anything from any bot that's fine. We had the same issue on Mastodon, I still can't figure out how to straight up block bots on there which is frustrating so instead I just filter out any posts that say "twitter" or "RT".

I don't have any issue with bots as long as they're easy to block across the board instead of individually.

I do think it's lame and that y'all are better than that.

I'm fine with it. Both Reddit and Kbin/Lemmy are link aggregators so it's just what they do.

The only concern I have is that the bot should rate-limit itself so that there's not a desert of threads with no comments.

People post form Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Software release... Reddit is no different taking from other sites. If it's automated or not matters, (IMHO). More content at this point is good. Taking from Reddit, (or any other sources), shouldn't matter. Ideally, the honorable thing to do is give the proper reference to your source, (or even better, from Reddit's source).

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I don't care. At the end of the day I switched to lemmy beacause I couldn't be on reddit. I know we're all just getting started and it's hard to get content. I'm not gonna start complaining about reposting, it's better than the feed being empty..

I think it’s useless in the way it’s being done. Barely any engagement on posts like that.

I have zero interest in it, and I've blocked the accounts I've seen doing it.

I want original content written by people on the fediverse, so bot reposts of Reddit content fails in every possible way.

Cut ties with Reddit. Period.

I blocked the lemmit bot and I haven't seen as much. I think it's silly. If they person who originally posted it on Reddit is now in the fediverse and wants to share their old posts, they can. Otherwise, I'm not a fan.

the only reason I don't block repost bot accounts is so I can downvote their posts every chance I get.

I dont mind reposts from reddit or elswehere when an actual person is reposting something they like or find interesting, people on all social media are reposting memes and content from other social media, it's as natural as (not) pooping.

I like seeing the posts, but I am confused about 1) if I am supposed to respond to them and 2) the relation between Reddit content and lemmy content.

Having posts from Reddit on lemmy is like buying into an apple that tastes like a pear. It's not insane or awful, it just isn't an apple.

If lemmy users want to repost content here themselves, fine, but if you want to turn lemmy INTO reddit, no dang thank you

Do Lemmy users have the option to hide bot posts?

Also don't like it

Not a fan myself. Obviously people can do what they want, but if I want reddit content that bad I'll go to reddit

Shits me to tears. I auto assume reposts are bots farming updoots

Good to see widespread deterrence here

I think it's a good idea. Pull the content from a centralized source and fediverse it.

blocked that stupid bot.

How do i see who is a repost bot?

Eh, part of the issue with leaving reddit is the loss of good posts and comments from there to search for.

With the post bots, some of that will end up federated, and eventually searchable. I'm okay with that.

I just wish the bots were focused on better content. I'm seeing a lot of stuff like AITA, but not much like askhistorians, and none of the in depth comments that are often the truly valuable stuff