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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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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Disagree. If it's tagged as a bot account, you can ignore it. You can block the community, instance, individual bots.

While I don't like them, other people do. This isn't a community where staffers currate, it's a place of free federation. By joining Lemmy you agree to use your time to curate your own content.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure. Only this is not content - it's just spam.

I find it very hard to believe there's a single user that finds any value in reposting /r/AITA posts. Without the comments the questions have no value as content.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

I 100% agree, for me. But while I find it hard to believe, some people may want it. They may run their own instance and subscribe to archive the content. They may just like to read it. I have no idea how crazy people are. All that being said, I’m in favor or separate archive communities.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting timing with this making All yesterday. https://lemm.ee/post/10568520

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not an /r/AITA post.

Additionally, you'll notice that the post that hit all is a cross post from an actual user. The original post from the bot has no upvotes and no comments.

IMO, this is really just evidence that the bot is counter productive.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago

Oh good catch, and point.

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