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I’ve been wondering why people have been reposting Reddit posts on Lemmy. If I wanted Reddit posts, I’d go on Reddit.
I assume many people migrated to Lemmy because they wanted a Reddit without spez.
Honestly, that’s why I’m here. I do like the decentralized/non-corporate model though
Reddit without astroturf, toxic redditor and farm bots.
I don’t even care about that. I just can’t use their app, it’s garbage.
As covered in the title, it’s because they suck
I hope at least AskReddit stays far, far away. I don’t need dozens of “Sexers of Lemmy, what is the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed” shit every day here.
I mean there’s already [email protected]
Which is filled with exactly these kinds of questions. Or shit like “What naughty things did you get up to today?”
Don’t worry the repost bots spam posts from there too
/c/ihavesex
I immediately block them as soon as I realize they’re a repost bot. Has cleaned up my feed nicely.
Just sucks that every new user will have to jump through hoops and block a dozen accounts before Lemmy is useable.
Not to mention that even opening some of the bot accounts pages to block them crashes the page sometimes because they have so many posts
Truthfully I found I have had to block quite a few more communities than just the reddit bots. Everything in the fediverse has required work so far. Worth it imo though.
Can we have group blocks?
Let users collaborate on the list of accounts and domains they want to block. E. g. have a special type of channel and every link that is posted and upvoted is blocked.
Isn’t there an option to block bot accounts?
Yes. Some people just like to complain. There’s plenty of stuff that needs blocked that are not bots.
I’m almost there, still at the internal dialogue of “oh damnit” and mild annoyance stage but haven’t quite gotten to the “do something about it stage”
The ones that post 60 articles about every sports team from some aggregate of RSS feeds and run on a timer every 30 mins and clog up the feed are annoying as well
Things would get really quiet without them.
Eventually I can see getting rid of them, but for now they’re keeping Lemmy active.
They’re doing the opposite.
A new user comes to Lemmy and sees nothing but the same posts they saw on Reddit, but now all of them have no comments and almost no upvotes because there’s so much of it posted to such a small environment that everything else gets drowned out.
After blocking every one of the dogshit bots I see just as many quality posts, by actual users, with actual comments.
I have blocked them and things dont get that quiet at all.
Eventually I can see getting rid of them, but for now they’re keeping Lemmy active.
Do a multitude of automated posts without comments and conversation really count as activity? Before I simply hid bot posts via settings, I’d rarely see any conversations appearing on Reddit reposts. Even now if you look at probably the most prolific bot instance/account behind this, Lemmit.online bot, you can see this for yourself.
Interesting archival project, I suppose, but it certainly doesn’t seem to generate activity in terms of conversation, besides posts like this.
Do a multitude of automated posts without comments and conversation really count as activity?
Yes, absolutely. Posts are activity just as much as comments - arguably even more so, since Lemmy is not immune to Reddit’s flaw of having a hundred comments saying essentially the same thing. Some subreddits have insightful comments that are worthwhile in-and-of themselves - but they are few and far between.
I don’t understand why anyone cares. I’m pro-repost bot, whether a real human posts the content or not makes no difference to me, I just want the content.
The major one I’ve noticed/been annoyed by is someone reposting r/buildapc questions to Lemmy. None of the responses. No way to communicate to the original redditor to genuinely respond, just…here’s the post devoid of all other information.
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most enjoyable, how would you rate that as “content?”
1 but I’d also just block that community anyway
I’d also consider the original reddit one a 1
I want content that’s interesting an engaging. Not a firehose of bullshit drowning out actual posts
Certified suck
There appears to be no difference in quality of the content for me.
Bad content gets downvoted, I’m with you on this one.
in settings you could choose to hide bot accounts
I don’t want to hide bot accounts, I want spam bots to be taken down so I can still enjoy decent bots.
I mean, you kind of just have to deal then, since that’s not something that can be programmed in. Your definition of “decent bots” for example, might wildly vary from someone else’s definition
Like pornography, you know it when you see it.
I guess the easy individual solution is to block those specific repost bot accounts.
But yes, they suck.
Yeah, that’s the solution. It just fucks over new users who don’t know to block all the spam.
I do this, and it has drastically improved my experience. However, I do miss the TLDR bots.
Also, I do share OP’s opinion that a lot of quality comes from interaction, so these re-posts aren’t doing anything for me. I do appreciate that that is a personal opinion though.
We should compile a list of the biggest repost bots so everyone can ban em
We should make a repost bot bot. That automates the reporting of repost bots. Then, watch the outrage as it posts about reposts. Botception could potentially grow from this very flashpoint.
Just use my blocklist at this point lol
I’m convinced that Reddit themselves are either behind those bots, or are deliberately looking the other way. Those bots posting and commenting make the site look more active than it actually is.
Need context on the question. You mean reposting stuff on Reddit or reposting stuff from Reddit?
Read some other comments and use your critical thinking cap
It’s difficult to build new communities. You need fresh content to attract a crowd and unfortunately the best way to do this is with Reddit reposts.
It’s the easiest way to seed content but isn’t the best for building a community. Communities need to be more than RSS feeds. And that missing element is a human filter IMHO. Curated content.
I don’t think most people mind curated reposts at all. No one wants to see every reddit post copied over en masse. Well, I guess a some do, but they suck, as is covered in the post title.
Most content is just content reposted from other sites so it makes sense to automate it.
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