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Same for public freakout. Some people feel you need to 'seed' a community with a bot and content... Seems dumb to me, copying everything from somewhere else. But it doesn't really bother me all that much
I think it’s important in the beginning to help generate content and have people stay in the community. Reddit would oftentimes have a subreddit with an interesting topic, but no content which pushes people away almost immediately
I will say it seems to be working. It's only because of the posts created by the bot that this community even appeared on my local feed, which helped me realize that there was a TIL community in Lemmy I could subscribe to.
Also theres the "1% of users generate all the content". It may take a bit for that 1% to get pulled into the community. Gotta keep that 99% entertained somehow in the mean time.
Is this not effectively a link aggregation site? Why do you care if the links are bespoke human entered data? People keep bitching about this and it makes no sense to me at all
I think it's an important difference if the bot posts are grabbed from (say the all time top posts from that sub in Reddit) vs reposting from the same Lemmy community.
One helps preserve a historical top posts for others to enjoy if the primary community goes dark (or the image/video hoster link expires), the other just adds annoying repetitiveness.
It's what some people want. Its not what I want. I'm happy both groups get to have what they want
in that instance, yes. Blocking it made my feed feel far less spammed
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Is there a list of repost bots somewhere? Would be nice to just block all of them.
Or tag them
There's a profile option to explicitly mark a profile as a bot, and another to hide all bot accounts. Of course that only works if the first option is used at all.
I don't get why people here are so in favor of bot seeding. To me, that makes a network inorganic and it intimidates average users from posting since it will more than likely be drowned out by all the bots. There are plenty of link aggregators in the world if all you want is funny memes.
I prefer places that feel like a real forum, with real people, interacting in real ways. That's what used to make reddit unique to me. That's what I love about Lemmy now.
I don't care if a community doesn't grow at a rapid pace. I'd rather have thoughtful conversations from a few individuals rather than a wall of spam that stifles discussion by making it harder to find discussions, since it spaces all the content out over dozens or hundreds of posts.
If all you want to do is doomscroll, there is no shortage of places to do that. But if you want to have actual discussions with real people... I'm not even sure there's a place for that anymore with how pro-bot this comment section is.
Guess I'm the old person yelling at clouds at this point, but it makes me kind of sad to see.
Guess I’m the old person yelling at clouds at this point,
No, looking at the comments here you seem to be in the majority line of thought.
"Doomscroll" is a new one to me. I like that.
And that bot is blocked by me now. Any other bots doing similar work for Skynet?
The ones I have blocked to reduce post spam are:
- @bclemmybot@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net
- @linkbot@lemmy.link
- @bot@lemmit.online
Are you a bot?
Am I a bot?
Is there anyway to know. You know the saying - "I think therefore I am (a bot)"
I asked Bing and it said I'm not a robot.
I suggest trying to harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. If that works, you're not a robot.
This deserves an award. But that is not the platform we find ourselves in. Rest assured though that this did cause me to chuckle.
Like a human.
That's all the award I need.
Beep boop!
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I don't have a problem with as long it's for the initial seeding, it would make no sense for it to exist after we are getting an organic growth.
https://lemmy.world/post/805180
Well, I've already made my points on using repost bots very clear a few days ago, and I still think they are a serious problem.
And the current conditions of this community is exactly what I was worried about.
We're on the same page
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I actually had a chat with the creator of this bot, @L3s@lemmy.world earlier today. I informed him that bots are only allowed when they are requested or approved by the community's moderator. I believe the creator has good intentions and he seemed to understand why it would be a bad idea to simply copy unfiltered content. You should no longer see posts of this bot outside of the communities he has an approval for.
On the other hand, I added lemmy.link to the banned instances as they were clearly just spamming, even posting TMZ ads. Their bot @linkbot@lemmy.link was also banned.
So, wether or not bots are allowed that is up to the community moderators. As long as they follow the general rules on content moderation and they have the moderators' approval.
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A lot of the top content on Reddit was fun and engaging, but it wasn't really important to talk about. Like ads that are actually enjoyable?
I think spamming content isn't real content anyways. Feels gross to engage with a bot
Im a human bot
One of it's posts is right above this one in my feed :(:(:(
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