Asklemmy

Hate repost bots, if you want to use one as a back-er-up-er-er it should post to a dedicated community intended to be an archive, not the main communities for a topic, they are practically spam and don't promote any conversation in the comments as people avoid commenting on something that has zero connection to the original poster of the question.

Repost bots are universally dogshit and should be forbidden.

Yeah not a fan of it for all of the reasons you stated.

I don't even like the AITA subreddit. It's precisely that kind of validation that annoys me the most of a social community. In the case of /r/AITA, it's just so "on your face". People rarely will tell the truth about their topics, even when they do, why go so harsh about themselves? Why not ask "Am I wrong here?", "Am I committing a mistake?, "Will I regret this?" instead of a "Am I the asshole?". Don't you think very self-entitled people will come and tell you "fuck yes! YATA"?

Ah, anyway, no, bots that can crosspost from other communities shouldn't be allowed. We also shouldn't try to replicate every successful/popular community, especially if it's a toxic one.

I encourage stealing from these communities: aww, askhistorians

I discourage stealing from: any of the innumerable fake story subreddits.

I'm not a fan of reposting AITA content. The fun is in the comments, which you don't get here.

I just block repost bots. It's funny how that sentence has different context now.

I blocked that whole community because of that bot. I kind of get the impulse, but it's swamping any attempt at useful discourse with layers of shit.

I don't really get the appeal of AITA and other places like it. The whole constant complaining on the Internet thing is... what's a better word for "fuckin wack"? Like just touch grass.

I don't think I like the idea. I've come across too many posts elsewhere that describe strategies for using AITA, JUSTNOMIL, etc., to get enough karma quickly to enable new alt accounts to post elsewhere on Reddit where minimum Karma scores are enforced. I don't want fake shit here even if that means we have less content.

r/bestof style of community could work, where the stuff is curated reposts and not straight up garbage

I think the problem is a community full of bot reposts basically guarantees there will be no original content posted on Lemmy, which is what we really want.

I don’t mind bots in general, the HNs bot can be annoying but sometimes it has something. A ouldn’t mind a few art centered. But I was glad when I left AITA behind, it’s so toxic!

Is that .world? I must be defederated from it

Most/all Reddit repost bots are bad imo

I thought I wanted it but ended up blocking it because I didn't want to engage with the content.

I'm disappointed that no one responded to you with YTA or NTA.

I accept everything you say, but I am still subscribed to it and read it a lot, even gasp following the Reddit link to the replies. Someone help me please with my addiction.

It sucks.

Repost bots can help siphon users from reddit and make it easier to transition.

No thank you, AITA is a toxic guilty pleasure, that I want to seek out actively if I'm in the mood for it, not see it on my feed regularly. It is the worst kind of form social media can take. If I see it anywhere on the fediverse, I'd immediately block it.

I think repost bots would be really good for QnA communities whose answers are relevant even after a while. Examples of such communities in my sphere would be r/askscience, r/cscareerquestions, etc. That would increase lemmy's use quite a lot imo.

If it gets people to comment go for it commenting and posting would basically be voting with your feet people who are complaining are likely already generating content in technology science ect in those topics reddit reposts aren't necessary.