Anyone else confused about the point of Lemmit.online? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Frexican21@lemmy.one to c/chat@lemmy.one

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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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[-] guy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Frexican21@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing, but

Lemmy comments still work though, so engagement is possible, just doesn't really seem to be happening

This is what I don't understand. Since the posts come from Reddit and you can't actually talk to the OP, the Lemmy community just ends up not taking off. Even if someone does post it might get buried under all the rest of the posts

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