Comment on Can we all agree on this one thing, that most people hate ai, but the bots on lemmy are an acception since they bring life to the communities when activities dries up.

Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• e0qdk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My understanding is that Lemmy bot accounts generally do not federate over to kbin. If you want to see an example of a bot making regular posts, you can check out shinobu@ani.social. Prior to the lemmy.ml/ani.social defederation it posted in anime@lemmy.ml -- i.e. go to https://lemmy.ml/c/anime sort by new and look like 10-ish pages back (currently) and you should see a bunch of bot posts (sometimes drowning out posts from real people). You can see it posting to https://ani.social/c/episode_discussion currently as well; there are a lot of bot threads and very few comments. When the bot had an outage a while ago (prior to the defederation) there was a discussion with various opinions on the bot and how/if it should operate. I think I've also seen another thread about it as well with more discussion, but I'm having trouble finding it again.

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh wow, that's severe. In those cases the bots are just posting news articles or announcements. It makes the community seem active but there's practically no engagement. It seems like the communities would just be dead without them.

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  • CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !anime@lemmy.ml, !episode@ani.social, !episode_discussion@ani.social

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