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Replicating reddit content from AITA (feddit.ch)

submitted 1 year ago by rbn@feddit.ch to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi all,

What's your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren't any, it's not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it's not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it's locked down to "mods only". So there's not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Repost bots are universally dogshit and should be forbidden.

[–] devils_advocate@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

News reposts can add value.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Absolutely Fucking not, full stop. Not indiscriminately spamming everything posted on Reddit with no user interaction, it makes the fediverse look dead

If you wanna repost shit that’s fine, but not 10k posts at a fucking time

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 1 year ago

Manual posts are fine. Not bot posts. If I wanted to see every news article, I'd just go to a news site or use an RSS reader. Not every news article needs commentary, and not every news article is interesting enough to warrant being posted here.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the content feed is what's valuable and can be reposted to Lemmy, it gives people one less reason to stay on Reddit.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No it doesn’t. Comments and engagement are what drives communities and the bots kill that. Someone pops in from Reddit, sees nothing but shit from Reddit? They’re gonna go back to Reddit. It’s fucking asinine.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This, 100%. I'd rather see 10 posts with a bunch of comments than 150 posts with no comments.

I can get news anywhere.

Especially with the frequency that these repost bots post, it's just drowns out real posts and makes lemmy look like a bot farm.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Repost pots are kinda my personal hatred on Lemmy, my block list is ridiculous