I noticed there’s a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?
I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.
I feel like it would be better to have a dedicated Reddit-mirror instance that instances can choose to federate with.
The issue is mirror posts are not organic which is not conducive to high quality discussion. If a community only gets 10 original posts a day but a mirror bot is dumping well over 1000 posts a day, that’s a problem because the organic content will get drowned out and further disincentivize people from posting and actually growing the community.
That’s what https://lemmit.online is.
I think it is a great idea to have a bot mirroring Reddit’s content onto a lemmy instance. But I agree, we don’t need those bots mucking up actual lemmy communities.
Some people want to follow Reddit content without opening it. You can block the bot posting these if it’s annoying. I did that and never saw it again.
That is good advice. I hadn’t considered that.
Seems fine to me. The news ones I’m subsrcibed to means I don’t actually miss anything that I found reddit was useful for
I suppose it’s a bit more sensible for news related subs. The reddits ines sre likley using bots to find the news and post it, though such bots may not exist for lemmy yet and its just easier to scrape from reddit.
But then I see somthing like the ask reddit sub on Lemmy. It’s just all of the questions none of the answers and no engagement at all. Some of the content is years old.Why does that need to exist? I can understand the idea of a reddit archive but why use lemmy for it?
I’m also wondering about the ethicacy of it. I’m annoyed at Reddit for not allowing me to delete my old content. There’s a lot of folks threating legal action and such over reddit denying people the right to remove that content. Now we are copying that content. I assume without consent of those who’d posted it, and adding it to our own platform.
Though perfectly legal, is that really a good idea? Is that what we as lemmy users actually want? does this actually improve the platform?
The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.
So, you’re saying we need another bot to copy the comments too?
I’m working on that one! Fork of lemmit.online, so it doesn’t need API access.
Don’t worry about it spamming instances. This bot posts so much that it will be automatically blocked from any instance that uses the default Lemmy rate limits, so all bot deployments will have to run on an instance that is specifically for them.
Source code for the bot will be released on July 1st if Reddit doesn’t introduce a breaking change on that day and if I don’t receive a good argument as to why this bot will destroy the Fediverse.
But why? We can’t interact with it at all? It’s like copy pasting a book.
It’s a stopgap for people who want to fully switch to lemmy but don’t have all the communities they need yet. I’m finding news to be especially lacking, for example. I’d love to be able to put up a second account with some r/o access to reddit communities to get headlines and know what I need to seek out and get informed about.
I don’t use Reddit for the interaction, average Redditors are annoying to interact with. Reddit’s value to me is the amount of information it contains. It’s supposed to be like copy pasting a book that has DRM, so you can make use of the content without worrying that the book’s copyright holder will use it to screw you over eventually.
