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I’ve been wondering why people have been reposting Reddit posts on Lemmy. If I wanted Reddit posts, I’d go on Reddit.
I assume many people migrated to Lemmy because they wanted a Reddit without spez.
As covered in the title, it’s because they suck
You could just… block the things you don’t want to see?
Noope. Blocking bots crash the app. (Avelon)
Try it from desktop, or a different app. A lot of these apps and frontends are new and buggy
Then that’s the app’s fault, not the bots’.
People want to see more happening here. The fediverse is not quite the ghost town it was a year ago, but it’s still pretty quiet, especially once you start digging into hobbies.
Of course, the good solution is not bot-driven, but human-driven. But people are lazy and think that they’d rather repost thousands of posts with a bot than figure out what links they think are good and post those.
IF ITS TOO QUIET MAYBE WE SHOULD TYPE LOUDER?
Mechanical keyboard users unite!
I CAN’T HEAR YOU
𝖄𝕰𝕾! 𝕷𝕰𝕿’𝕾 𝕿𝖄𝕻𝕰 𝕷𝕺𝖀𝕯𝕰𝕽!
I used to use a bot in one of my communities to help me out. Turns out it spammed way too much. Once I got feedback from the community I turned it off. I now have sources fed to me privately via RSS and then filter content based on what I think the community will enjoy and post it manually. Is it harder? Yes. But the community has more engagement, comments more, and votes positively more often since I started doing it this way. I also gain consistent new subscribers daily. I also have control over the “nozzle” so if multiple stories are worth posting but there are too many, I can sideline some for when the news slows down and post them later.
I immediately block them as soon as I realize they’re a repost bot. Has cleaned up my feed nicely.
Just sucks that every new user will have to jump through hoops and block a dozen accounts before Lemmy is useable.
Not to mention that even opening some of the bot accounts pages to block them crashes the page sometimes because they have so many posts
Truthfully I found I have had to block quite a few more communities than just the reddit bots. Everything in the fediverse has required work so far. Worth it imo though.
Can we have group blocks?
Let users collaborate on the list of accounts and domains they want to block. E. g. have a special type of channel and every link that is posted and upvoted is blocked.
Good thing I can block them just from their post. Some Lemmy apps are cool.
(on Liftoff i can, on thunder I can’t).
Yes thankfully I realized this after a bit because I could not click in and block due to crash!
How is it crashing? Don’t most Lemmy instances only load like 20 per page or something?
Probably using a poorly coded 3rd party app. There are so many phone apps now any many are still in the early stages of development. I saw another user saying “Blocking a bot account crashes my app” but I fail to see how that’s Lemmy’s fault
Isn’t there an option to block bot accounts?
Yes. Some people just like to complain. There’s plenty of stuff that needs blocked that are not bots.
I’m almost there, still at the internal dialogue of “oh damnit” and mild annoyance stage but haven’t quite gotten to the “do something about it stage”
The ones that post 60 articles about every sports team from some aggregate of RSS feeds and run on a timer every 30 mins and clog up the feed are annoying as well
The great thing about lemmy, or the fediverse at large, is that people can have control and freedom over their social media platform. Block what you don’t like and subscribe to what you do like. There’s no single large entity deciding what everyone should see.
The bots exist because there are people that like them for whatever reason. Maybe there are niche communities that they want to keep up with, or career/school/local communities that they still want to read about without having to open up Reddit.
why do you suck?
It’s fine asking why, but like I said above, people have the freedom to customize Lemmy to their liking. Let them do what they want and customize your experience for yourself.
It’s difficult to build new communities. You need fresh content to attract a crowd and unfortunately the best way to do this is with Reddit reposts.
It doesn’t seem like it is effective as I rarely see any upvotes or comments on the reposts.
It’s the easiest way to seed content but isn’t the best for building a community. Communities need to be more than RSS feeds. And that missing element is a human filter IMHO. Curated content.
I don’t think most people mind curated reposts at all. No one wants to see every reddit post copied over en masse. Well, I guess a some do, but they suck, as is covered in the post title.
Nonsense. The reposts are not content. It’s just spam, which dilutes what little content we do have.
Everybody witness my amazing technical prowess and bot configuration skills. Repetitively.
They should create their own instance so the rest of us can defederate.
Need context on the question. You mean reposting stuff on Reddit or reposting stuff from Reddit?
Read some other comments and use your critical thinking cap
