Comment on Bots copy pasting Reddit - is there a method to block them all?
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 year agoI don’t mind reposts when there is discussion on the reposts. When there is zero discussion, which is what’s happening with the Reddit copy paste on Lemmy then it’s just clutter.
If I sort by new, most of the submissions are reposts with zero votes and zero comments. If I sort by activity/hot then I see days old submissions. … how engaging. I’d prefer to engage with new content but I’m not prepared to look over ~twenty submissions to only find one or two real submissions.
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
The lack of discussion isn't due to the bots, though. That's due to the users simply not participating. There's no technical difference between a bot-posted thread and a human-posted one; users can still engage in the comments section all the same.
Personally, I don't mind the bot accounts for the most part. There aren't enough humans posting new threads in some communities, so the bots at least offer the potential for discussions to occur, but it's up to the users to actually engage.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure there is: when it’s a human-posted thread, it means at least one person participated. The difference between one and zero – between talking to a single other person and talking to an empty room – is very large.
Chozo@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's not really how comment sections work, though. They exist all the same, whether the OP is a bot or a human. It's up to the other humans to use it.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if no other humans reply but you, at least you were talking to OP.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 year ago
The big difference is a human OP gets a notification when someone comments, and presumably the OP is usually interested in discussing the thing they posted
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
There is more content posted to reddit so when that’s reflected to lemmy I find that I miss lemmy threads. That made me block the reddit bots.