From what I can gather, a bot creates communities based on subreddits recommended to them by users, then fills said communities with posts from Reddit. I don’t really get the point of this, as 90% of posts it seems are just copied from Reddit but without any of the actual engagement, as the OP didn’t post it and no one is commenting. It just seems like clutter and a waste of space, but it’s also all over my feed. Anyone else confused?

  • mouth_brood@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reddit is the largest aggregator in the world. Why not use that power to generate content while lemmy is growing? It’s going to take time to build a large enough user base to provide consistent content. Reddit will bring people here faster

  • IceMan@forum.basedcount.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To be honest I like it, it makes sense to me.

    I go on Lemmy to my community X - there is 3 posts last week, 2 of them have any comments.

    My curiosity is not satisfied, I go to Reddit, same community X - 300 posts this week, all with comments. Of course I’m going to keep coming to red

    My goal is to ditch Reddit - so I can only go on Lemmy, I can live with lower number of comments but what kick-starts the community and and discussion is content. With lemmit I’ve got BOTH content from Reddit and Lemmy in one place, no need to go on Reddit. Double win for me, more content on Lemmy and less people go to Reddit. Optimally when the community on some topic on Lemmy grows substantially the bot should be turned off.

  • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I am not sure how I feel. It sounds like some people like it, which is great. There’s no particular reason not to do it, as long as no copyright issues arise. If it’s keeping people off Reddit, that’s an added bonus, but “people like it” is enough for me.

    Personally, though, I would like to see the fediverse genuinely replace Reddit, not just duplicate it and absorb its traffic. In my experience, that works best when you actually move on from the thing you’re trying to replace, rather than looking back at it all the time. Right now, a lot of us (including me) are still trying to process the break from Reddit, so we’re going to be thinking and talking about it a lot. It just seems like in the long term, it might be unhelpful to have that direct pipeline to Reddit, when we might otherwise just not think about it anymore.

    • mycatiskai@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My AITA fix wasn’t getting filled here because all the assholes are still on Reddit. Once that becomes harder and lemmy becomes easy then all the assholers and assholees will hopefully start coming on here.

      • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        This is simultaneously funny and terrible, because it is almost certainly how that is going to work. Unless someone starts a “/wibta” (“would I be the asshole”) for people to make up imaginary situations. It might not be as good, but at least it wouldn’t mean inviting over a lot of assholes.