I don’t really get the point. I mean, of course we want to attract people, but do we really want to trick them into thinking that there is content when there’s not ?
The other day I took some time to answer somebody and came back later to finally understand that I was talking to a bot. Not only did I waste my time, but the real person needing help didn’t even know I tried to help. I felt aweful.
I know the job is hard for mods to create content and motivate people into participating but there must be another way.
Yeah, I’ve blocked @bot so I don’t accidentally do that. I could see it maybe being useful back before the massive influx we recently had, and only if it posted the top 3 or so posts of a subreddit per day.
Now it’s useless, arguably making Lemmy worse. It seems plenty active here now that I’ve subscribed to a bunch of (real) communities.
@SilentStorms The goal is to create a backup of Reddit if Redit closes for whatever reason I guess. Then you would have a matching resource to go to. But yeah it doesn’t need to be posting everything at the top. Maybe it could be silent postings that you can access but won’t show on your feed.
A number of instances defederated from it because… well, the reason a number of people are here is to not be on Reddit and seeing a mass deluge of content ported from Reddit defeats that purpose. There other other reasons too, like the fact it makes a ton of submissions and each has very few if no comments leading to the impression of a very barren community.
Yeah, makes sense. I wonder if there's going to be a mute/shadow federation function so that the instance doesn't show up in /all, but you can still subscribe to a community to see its posts on your subscribed page.
Not for this instance specifically, but as in some general functionality.
I debated blocking the instance because it’s literally just a bot copy and pasting reddit posts, but you can ask the bot to copy/paste content from any subreddit and there are a lot of amateur porn subreddits that I kind of miss…well, used to anyways.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't like broad defederation from a platform. That's what will ruin the dedicerse when the money and large companies creep in. Imagine Sony vs Microsoft video game wars with exclusives. It's a system designed for decentralized enjoyment of all. Banning/blocking instances from other instances by default is problematic to the health of the basic idea of federation.
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