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
So at some point in July some newcomer from reddit thought it might be a good idea to subscribe to lemmit.online, and then they returned to reddit, and we're stuck with this garbage in perpetuity?
I did read the authors FAQ. It's nonsensical.
That doesn't help new users. As I mentioned in my comment. This spam discourages engagement from new users and gives the impression that lemmy is some kind of shitty version of reddit. I guarantee there are many new users who don't understand why there are dozens of AITA posts from reddit with no comments.
As I said in my comment, no one want's to defederate because someone will complain that it's censorship, which it is not in this case.
This is lunacy. He could have his own reddit without subjecting the rest of Lemmy to this spam. I sincerely doubt the guy is even using these posts himself - what's the point of reading AITA questions without the comments?!
It's the opposite, these posts are making it look like Lemmy has no content.
All your complaints should be taken up with whoever runs discuss.tchncs.de
No, the idiot who runs lemmit.online should realise that their dumb repost bot is not serving any purpose and is harming lemmy, not just discuss.tchncs.de.