I started working on a script that will take top post from subreddits to post then to corresponding c/ on lemmy with various accounts to give the impression of minimal activity.
The idea comes from a lemmy user etting saying they would never want to support reddit with lemmy content (or in general), and instead just taking the content from there and putting it on lemmy.
It feels like I’m just kinda sewing lemmy into the human centipede that is content filler. I can see why content does get reposted it’s entertaining and engaging and they propagate.
It does feel like a Pandora’s jar like I’m laying a foundation for a bot army even though I only plan to be small scale
No thank you. Just leeching content from reddit will never get Lemmy anywhere.
I blocked all content reposted from Lemmy (there was an instance dedicated to that iirc).
First of all, posts without comments are pointless. Interaction and comments is what grows Lemmy. Second, bot posts are not well received by most here I think.
I can see it useful only as a “reddit backup” of kind, in case the platform goes offline for good and all that is lost.
I would worry for the level of moderation required to filter shitty / ai / bots etc.
Please don’t
Automatic posting from Reddit has been tried before and has been pretty unpopular for the most part. Here’s an old thread with some good discussion about it:
That makes absolutely no sense, we have more than enough activity on lemmy without reddit trash. We don’t need a million posts a second we need a steady stream of high quality content made by real people.
I block any and all bots I see regardless of good intent, and suggest everyone else do the same. There’s enough living humans to post news articles and memes. We don’t need bot filler.
That seems like too much effort. Unless someone documents all the bots on lemmy
Just tag your bots as bots and the default “hide bot posts” option will do it automatically. But it requires the bot operators to properly tag their bot accounts as bots.
If people would stop making them, it’s would be zero effort. But sadly, this is where we are.
ha, theres an entire instance dedicate to this process besides all the github bot scripts… this is nothing new here.
maybe make sure and throw the bot flag so people can filter accordingly
Yeah I see the ones for all the adult content. Man I’m bad at researching before I program.
I’m pretty much thinking about putting it in the description that they’re bots
There’s an explicit flag that can be toggled on every account to mark them as bots. If you’re acting in good faith that flag should definitely be toggled.
Please let us have this forum without subjecting us to content from that other site.
Idk how to feel about this
When reddit first started, it almost failed because there was no content.
So what they did was had staff members post, and reply to each other. They made sure to reply to any actual new people. And then they did this from hundreds of automated accounts.
They simulated activity to promote actual real activity.
I know everyone will disagree with me, but I’d say DON’T flag them as bots. If the bots fool humans, and cause growth of the fediverse/lemmy? Great. In time you can turn off the bots. But only once actual humans are here.
I was thinking about putting my personal account on the script so that way I can get notifications and engage.
I like to think that lemmy users could just enjoy the content without having to go to reddit
FYI, there’s many bot accounts already reposting stuff. There was an entire instance previously dedicated to it, though I think it shut down at some point. It was not popular, most people blocked the accounts / instances and they just clogged up the feed for newcomers due to the lack of engagement.
The problem isn’t content, it’s engagement on the content. Folks complain that niche communities have no engagement, just a bunch of posts by a single person… but it feels like 95% of the time, if I comment on those posts, there’s no reply, not even from the OP, and that discourages further posting.
If you’re willing to engage on everything you post, I don’t see the harm in it, but at that point, why even use a bot? Why not just find content you like (or have the bot notify you of content), then post it yourself as an actual human?
