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submitted 1 year ago by Seigest@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I noticed there's a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?

I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

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[-] erre@feddit.win 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I requested one for r/soccer. The community here is small and I don't have the time to spend all day on Twitter looking for the latest news to post it while it grows. So this bot fetches latest posts from there and I crosspost to a Lemmy community of real users on the rare occasion that it's interesting to me. The bot lives in its own instance so it isn't spamming any real user community.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For news-oriented communities, I understand using a bot, at least until you build a userbase.

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