Lemmy, AITA for disliking copied content from Reddit in the AmITheAsshole community? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by iamanurd@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So, I get that someone is trying to populate this community with posts using the lemmit.online bot. And that the vast majority of us are coming from Reddit. And that AITA is a staple community that we’re used to seeing in our feeds.

However, it seems like that just copying content into an otherwise empty community is just feeding a sterile wasteland. There is almost no engagement on the copied posts, and worse: I think it will smother any actual new content that gets posted in this wasteland of copied content. (I stand corrected, after trying to post this there I found out that only mods have priveleges to post. It’s worse than I thought, and I’ll probably just block it from my feed if it’s only a Reddit echo chamber)

What do you think, AITA?

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[-] Klicnik@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are not the asshole. The purpose of that community is to have communication with humans. When a bot posts a question there, there is no reason to respond. It's not a human asking, and the human that originally asked in another forum will never see the response. I blocked that spammy bot, and have enjoyed my feed way better since.

[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. The lemmit bot was blocked as soon as I saw it. If people want Reddit content, they need to suck it up and go to Reddit.

[-] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I blocked the bot. It's artificial

[-] mizu6079@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I hate that bot SO MUCH. It's the only account i have blocked on Lemmy.

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

No. I see a lot of reposts in here, even with meme templates 13 years old, and I’d rather not see them at all

[-] everythingsucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a lot of these posts are like a “best of” from Reddit. If I wanted to see bots repost top posts from reddit, I would have stayed on Reddit.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NTA.

AITA is not about sharting funny content and then asking "am I an asshole or what", it's a way for the OP to invite (hopefully) honest and civilized discussion and criticism about their actions, without risking verbal abuse or being downvoted to hell. When a bot reposts an existing question without the OP's knowledge, it loses the line of communication between OP and the community and the entire point of an AITA post. Populating the fediverse with content is important, but compromising the entire reason that content exists is not the way to build a community.

edit: sharing, not sharting. I'm not changing it because funny.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I would near guarantee that 90% if not more of that subreddit is fake posts for karma farming.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

edit: sharing, not sharting. I’m not changing it because funny.

I tried to fart and a little shit came out.

[-] Obscura@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Worried for you if your autocorrect is ready to go with sharts. 😂

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think ITA for being the only one here that dislikes AITA period. That shit subreddit should never have migrated here. It’s just karma farming.

[-] nei7jc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Well there's no karma. It's more genuine here.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

See that up arrow near all the posts and comments?

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