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.

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 just blocked the bot so it didn't fill my feed.

Well, it's pretty much summed up in the pinned post in lemmit.online, but here you go: https://lemmit.online/post/14692

In short, yes, that instance is a bit archiving stuff from Reddit. The point is: there's no harm and it could be useful. If you mind, there's just one account to block.

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.

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

I blocked the bot. Fixed my feed instantly

Yeah it doesn't maker sense to me, either. When there is one in my feed I just block the account and scroll on.