General Discussion

That's why I unsubed worldnews. Too much bot spam for my liking.

Here is some engagement.

Just block the bot, i don't see their posts anymore

Go Lemmiwinks! Stop Wikileaks! Sorry guys, I don’t know why this reminded me of that South Park episode… I don’t like those reposts either… ppl should focus on new original content.

I think the lemmy instance that's only for reddit reposts is a great way to go about it. You always know what you're in for if you sub anything there, and it's not taking up space on other servers.

I agree, as long as it's link to articles and not copying text posts, it's a good measure to help small communities take off.

I agree with this. As long as it's not too much, and isn't the comments, I think it's fine. I wish there was more engagement, but that will come with time I think

That's my opinion too. The only thing people come to these type of sites for is the content and community. Link-copying bots improve the former and improve the opportunities for the latter. It's all upsides and no downsides as far as i can see.

It litters people's feeds with content devoid of interaction that there's no point in interacting with. It funnels them back to Reddit. It is a mistake.

If you can get the content of a post and post it, that's good. RSS bots are cool. If you can pull the image/link and title from reddit and post it you've got a good recipe. Right now I'm seeing a lot of lemmit and other bots just posting straight links to reddit posts, this is a counterproductive waste of time.

I mean, I want the reddit content, I just don't want reddit itself.

If we wanted Reddit content that badly we’d still be on Reddit.

Idk why you personally are here, but many migrants (myself included) did NOT leave reddit because we dislike reddit's content; we left because the site is controlled an unaccountable Elon/Zuck wannabe whose every decision the last decade has made the site worse. Getting reddit's content (or something close to it) without contributing clicks to Spez's dreams of a big payday is EXACTLY why I'm here.

This is a super well said take.. I like the part about the worth being in the comments. I agree. I'm fine with bots, just not spam, or reposts of a thread that requires some type of engagement with OP themselves.

Also if I sort by all and new, I'd rather not see a million bot posts before I find a real person. Since this is a small community, we are easily overrun by automation. There's definitely a balance to be had.

And some bots I like, like the tldr bot

This is a good viewpoint I think. News is ok. Not sure how you filter that though. I’d rather have bots pulling news from direct sources whether that be world events, game news etc rather than Reddit.

I was torn at first but then I realized my gut feeling when I see them is to not upvote or comment on them. So why have them??

That is also my viewpoint.

I am concerned with comments, but I'm not suggesting we copy those over. The posts are fine, I just wish there was more engagement with them

Everyone everywhere all at once hates 9gag

I've been using it for the last 24 hours, only to pull link posts to small communities that need a jump-start. People won't post or stay in a community that has no content, and so far the bot has helped start conversations, and has made the communities more active in just 24 hours.

Once there is enough posting in those communities I'll turn the bot off and focus on a new one. Currently doing this in 3 different communities on lemmy.world, it only posts once an hour, and checks if the link has already been posted.