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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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It seems odd to me that these are often discussed at a "server wide" level. If a community doesn't like the posts they can ban the user no? Shouldn't the Administrators try to focus on running the site and gross rule violating content and not be involved in random bots?
The problem is that it can fill up the new feed for new users, so they end up seeing a ton of posts with no interaction on them.
I personally don't feel mass cloning of content from reddit over to lemmy, is going to help build a community. This isn't stumbleupon.
While that may be true, the New sort is doomed already since it's filled with shitposts from Lemmy itself. If this bot disappears it'll be just beans.
Does it post anything to lemmy.ca?
Nope, I believe it's confined to communities on that instance.
That server has no users. Just the bot. So in tyhis case banning the server is effectively banning a single user. But also saves on resources when the lemmy.ca server doesn't need to fetch the posts that are blocked by a large percentage of the local users.