Comment on Fediverser: bring content and users from legacy social media networks into the fediverse
rglullis@communick.news 1 year agoThis is less about the people who are already here (though it can be helpful to them as well) and more about the people who are still there because they claim they stick to reddit because they can’t find their content here.
The last thing I want is more bots spamming content here.
What is “here”? This system works by making a mapping between subreddits and specific lemmy communities. So if I am running this tool and all I want to mirror the content of /r/python into !python@programming.dev, this all it’s going to do. I hope that no one will be trying to run this with the largest subreddits, because if they went on to do it would be inviting themselves to be blocked/defederated.
sirfancy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would put money on the fact that the mods of that python community would not want that bot to be run. As others have mentioned, we want to have our lemmy community garner a community and culture organically, completely detached from any sort of roots in a different social media site. I obviously cannot stop you from running this bot in your own community, but I, personally, am blocking any sort of reddit bots or other connector bots.
I really don’t believe rapid growth/engagement injection is a priority for Lemmy. I’d rather focus on cultivating small communities that can engage in thoughtful and meaningful debates on posts that wanted to be shared by posters, and not generated by bots.