Agreed. Nobody is interacting with the posts either, just taking up space. I’d prefer less posts with more engagement.

I don't like it. There's no one on the other end, the reason I'm here.

It feels unnatural to me. We don't need to force interaction when we're all here to do it.

Plus I'm still mostly sorting by new. They clog it up.

Edit: it's impossible to sort by new now, because of all those damned lemmit posts!!!

I don't have a problem with bots mirroring Reddit content as long as it limits itself to not overwhelm Fediverse communities with more content than the people subscribing to it can comment on. Bots should ideally keep an eye on that and throttle themselves on that basis.

I agree, it feels cheap and pointless. If we wanted Reddit content that badly we’d still be on Reddit.

Sorry but I don’t agree with this logic. Smaller communities are more susceptible to drought. Content is a water supply. I moderate a magazine for The Office (woo woo, shout out) and I bring in content from Reddit as often as I can. It’s a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.

So we hate 9gags here too?

I'm fine with reposting stuff like News, where it's relatively impersonal and I'm not necessarily concerned with comments.

But I also like having more in depth conversations on the creative stuff. Just having bots post that feels impersonal.

I guess it depends on the magazine.

Yes, this has been irking me too! There is enough "real" content here to keep me happy and interacting. I just scroll past the bot stuff now.

TLDR Bots can be good, bots can also be bad. We need to find a balance.

I feel the value of Reddit, Lemmy, and any similar platform does not come from the post itself but (a) the interactions within the comments and (b) the sorting based on votes.

These two features make information here reliable and obtaining reliable information becomes more productive.

For example, an article expresses information verified by a single person or a team, but when that article is posted here many people read it and share their opinion. I can go through the comments and determine how bullshit or not that article is. Also, the comments contain quotes, summaries and relevant information which one would have to spend hours researching. Lastly, when multiple articles are posted on a community sorting allows me to find the articles worth my time.

It does not matter if the post was created by a bot, but whether humans interacted with it.

With all that, I would like to agree with some people here that bots can be a threat. If the content they produce overwhelms the humans interacting with the content.

If human content is buried under thousands of bot posts, noone will interact with it. We need lemmings to feel they are valued by their communities, they shouldn't have to compete with emotionless robots.

I feel like we need to make the opposite happen. We make great posts that are shared on Reddit. Sure the awards that will be given will only profit Reddit, but watching the mods furiously delete the posts will be enough of a reward… or, you know. Spite

Reddit addiction is strong.

According to mods it's a huge fucking issue. These small instances have hundreds of bots registering. Not surprising that a lot of them are just reposting shit from reddit. Most likely they are astroturfing so it seems like this place is full of bots. Instance moderators need to defedrate from these bit instances as soon as they pop up.

i haven't tried this yet, but here you go: https://kbin.social/m/BotIt

edit: wow major brain fart. you DON'T want bots. i thought this was like "can we not just use bots?" my bad

Some reposts might make sense, like I wouldn’t mind a bot that reposts from /r/news over here for example. But to crosspost AITA and AskReddit posts is just stupid.

So far the only users I block are bots that post from reddit. Annoying stuff that is.

HAHA NICE ONE HUMAN. IM TOTALLY NOT A BOT

1000% agree.

if it makes ya feel better those bots will die come july