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People want to see more happening here. The fediverse is not quite the ghost town it was a year ago, but it’s still pretty quiet, especially once you start digging into hobbies.
Of course, the good solution is not bot-driven, but human-driven. But people are lazy and think that they’d rather repost thousands of posts with a bot than figure out what links they think are good and post those.
The ones that post 60 articles about every sports team from some aggregate of RSS feeds and run on a timer every 30 mins and clog up the feed are annoying as well
This is the main reason it’s so annoying.
You try to scroll by new and you see a hundred posts on the same community from a reddit bot.
I don’t understand why anyone cares. I’m pro-repost bot, whether a real human posts the content or not makes no difference to me, I just want the content.
I want content that’s interesting an engaging. Not a firehose of bullshit drowning out actual posts
Certified suck
There appears to be no difference in quality of the content for me.
I’ve used reposter bots on my hungarian meme community, since I can’t make good enough memes and it’s really niche. After a popular vote, I have disabled it, but unfortunately now the community is really really slow again.
Honestly, it’s so easy to block accounts, so if there’s only one bot in you community you should just keep it.
If they don’t like it they can block it.
But then the bot serves no purpose but to push away new users who see only the bot content
Interestingly that’s what I have observed too, and not just only on my community, but on others too. I think it may correlate with the too frequent posting too. For example my bot was ordered to post every 4 hours which can be overwhelming for the average lemmings fella here.
Right; to my interpretation, a bot post won’t convince anyone new to check out a community, and when someone does check out a community they see a series of posts regardless of how far apart in time they are, so the bot doesn’t serve to pull in new people in any way
Hmm can agree with that logic. Thank you for sharing your input!
I mean they certainly have the possibility, but maybe they don’t know about it or don’t wanna hassle with it. Although your point is definitely understandable.
Yeah, the worst thing is in smal and slow communities your comment won’t get any replies, and the highest chance of reply is from the op, but if it’s a repost bot, there’s obviously no chance of that. Just have to hope for organic growth.
Also, there are hun communities? Never found any while on here.
Yes, it’s an unfortunate situation, but I was thinking of maybe reviving the bot and making it post really sparsely, like once in 2 days or something like that, but that will require a popular vote again.
Yes, there are some actually, which honestly surprised me a bit: !hungary@lemmy.world (They collected all the hun communities in a post)
“My” community is this one: !fosttalicska@sopuli.xyz
We should compile a list of the biggest repost bots so everyone can ban em
We should make a repost bot bot. That automates the reporting of repost bots. Then, watch the outrage as it posts about reposts. Botception could potentially grow from this very flashpoint.
Just use my blocklist at this point lol
The great thing about lemmy, or the fediverse at large, is that people can have control and freedom over their social media platform. Block what you don’t like and subscribe to what you do like. There’s no single large entity deciding what everyone should see.
The bots exist because there are people that like them for whatever reason. Maybe there are niche communities that they want to keep up with, or career/school/local communities that they still want to read about without having to open up Reddit.
why do you suck?
It’s fine asking why, but like I said above, people have the freedom to customize Lemmy to their liking. Let them do what they want and customize your experience for yourself.
They should create their own instance so the rest of us can defederate.
that would be lemmit.online
Most content is just content reposted from other sites so it makes sense to automate it.
No
Yes.
Abso-fucking-lutely not
Abso-fucking-lutely yes.
Everybody witness my amazing technical prowess and bot configuration skills. Repetitively.
Need context on the question. You mean reposting stuff on Reddit or reposting stuff from Reddit?
Read some other comments and use your critical thinking cap
Hah! I remember reddit