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?
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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.
I blocked the bot. Fixed my feed instantly
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
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I just blocked the bot so it didn’t fill my feed.
Block the bot if you don’t want to see it. It’s just one bot for all of it.
I find it useful. I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic, but there’s still content getting posted there that you won’t find here just yet. Yeah, it’s not good for text posts, as they really need the comments, but image and link posts are still useful even without comments.
Lemmy comments still work though, so engagement is possible, just doesn’t really seem to be happening.
