I think the problem with bot posts is that they can put more content in than the human community can sustain.

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.

Instead of bots we’re probably better off just doing our part to make more posts and comments.

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”.