Comment on An idea for more content on Lemmy (and the fediverse): Relly (Relay+Lemmy)
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The content is out there on the internet, you don’t need Lemmy to consume it. What you want is a community of people that care and talk about the content, but you can’t just create that with a f*cking bot.
Please stop this content bot shit and just give it some time to grow organically. Reddit and Twitter weren’t built in a year either. If Lemmy is any good then people will come, if not then we will move on and that’s fine as well.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
No, it’s not. This is a fight against tech companies with multi-billion dollar budgets, who profit from exploiting your data, getting you addicted for “engagement” and who won’t mind destroying any glimpse of social fabric to keep things this way.
Thinking that “community is enough” is bringing a knife to a gun fight. We need to neutralize Big Tech. We need to get as many people as possible out of the Borg. Social media works by the 1/9/90% rule, and the bots are a first step to make this place a viable alternative to the 90%.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The bots are a big step backwards imo. They make this place look like a surreal ghost town, instead of an inviting place to start or participate in a discussion.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
It depends on the implementation. If all you have is a handful of bots posting all their posts on a fixed schedule, then yes, it gets quite tedious.
But I believe IMHO that the system I have going for fediverser avoids a lot of those issues. There is one “mirror bot” for each account that is posting on reddit, and they posted to lemmy’s mirror instance in near real-time. This means that the conversations basically happen in the same way they happened on reddit. This also opens up the possibility of (a) two-way communication between Lemmy and Reddit threads and (b) the mechanism for the real person to “take over” the bot account.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So what if people don’t want their answers being mirrored back to Reddit because it’s a greedy company, or redditors don’t want their comments on Lemmy?! Are you going to ask each one individually or just do it without their consent? Does it become a one-way mirror where someone from Reddit will never see your answer? That sounds really engaging and not at all creepy to me! /s
Die4Ever@programming.dev 11 months ago
I agree with most of your comment but IDK about the end part. Bots haven’t seemed to be working at all, most people hate them. Luckily there’s a setting to hide all bot posts but most people don’t know that option exists in their settings.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
What you are talking about seems to the problem of the RSS bots, which I also dislike. The system I’m working on has a post-mirroring aspect to it, but that’s only one part of it. The main goal of fediverser is to let people migrate away from reddit without letting them feeling like they are missing out on the content from niche communities.
I’ve said in another thread, this is important but only goes so far. I was subscribed to ~40 subreddits, but I was actively participating in maybe 5-6 of them. For the other 85% of subs, I just wanted to keep a pulse on the discussion but didn’t have the time, energy or expertise to contribute. In my case, there was maybe a handful of communities that I could contribute on Lemmy but about 35 communities that I “wished” there was more content but the people are simply not here yet.
So, what am I to do? I don’t want to be on reddit, but I can bring the content from reddit into these communities. And I completely understand that it might be annoying for those that actually want the interaction, but to those I’d say: please subscribe to the mirror anyway because we are going to “fake til we make it”. The more content we have (even if mirrored) the easier it will be to convince people to migrate and the easier it will be for them to think “if I can follow the same content on both networks, I might as well just move to the place that is not run by a big corp that exploits me and my data”.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 11 months ago
Really I dislike any post where the OP isn’t willing to respond to their notification that they have a comment in their post.