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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Shadow@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca
 

I'm curious if anyone here actually finds value in the reddit posts brought over by lemmit.online, since I'd like to defederate from it otherwise.

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they're going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it. TBH I forgot it existed until Tesseract showed me its posts again.

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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The reddit posts are absolutely useless without the comments.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Exactly, and that is one reason why Sopuli defederated from that instance. Having things posted straight to Lemmy would be better instead of clumsy crossposting from Reddit.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

It’s good for the nsfw subs since the comments didn’t much matter.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've gone ahead and defederated since it didn't seem like anyone was in favor, thanks for the feedback.

If you really miss it, let me know and we can reconsider.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

I agree with this Idea as it makes it harder to find legitimate posts in the all feed.

[–] VandimionDevilChild 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

finds value in the reddit posts

Nope, maybe last year during the api debacle you could argue that it had some value, but since then and now the content itself on reddit is just getting shitty exponentially, browsing reddit literally feels like the dead internet to me.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

The few subs I still go to are very clearly overrun by AI posts and comments.

[–] Zimroxo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, seems kinda useless to me and I can see how it could be harmful to Lemmy

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I've had the instance blocked for a while now for more or less that reason, I'm not upset about it.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

As soon as I tried tesseract while anon, I was overwhelmed by the garbage post. Turns out I blocked it long ago on my account.

I'm all for defed.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Recent versions of Lemmy include a admin API function to mark communities as hidden, thus making them disappear from the all feed but people can still subscribe to them afaik. That is a possible alternative to outright banning the bot in case there are some people interested (it seems to be mostly NSFW subscriptions though).

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

The bot has so many posts that it's profile page took longer than 30s for me to load, and I had to go adjust our timeouts to get it to finish. It's just going to get worse at the volume that it's posting, I'd rather just not deal with that particular scaling problem yet =)

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago

I de-federated from it on 3 of my servers for all the reasons stated here.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

It really should bring over top posts only, that aren't questions

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't miss it.

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Nope, I blocked and forgot about it too. Defed away!

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

I've blocked that instance myself. I wouldn't miss it, if all Lemmy servers defed it.