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Replicating reddit content from AITA (feddit.ch)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can't wait for instance blocking so zerobyte or whatever the repost instance is called can be removed from my life forever.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Zerobyte and Lemmit

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For what it's worth, many apps like Boost and Sync can do this locally.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oooo that's certainly a handy feature.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You're entitled to your own opinion, but you seem to be assigning your opinion to me as well.

I didn't leave reddit because the content was bad. I left because they stopped supporting mobile apps. That seems to be why most people left to be honest.

Lemmy is my one stop shop for news and social media. If there were not news stories being reposted from Reddit then Lemmy would not be a suitable reddit replacement.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No one is assigning their opinion to you. We each have our own competing opinions which we are advocating for.

If you stop the bots, actual people will start posting actual content like an actual community.

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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