it’s the amount of comments on bot posts that is the problem. I go to news communities on lemmy/reddit too see articles and people’s reactions to those articles. If I just wanted to read news, I would go to my news aggregator, not Lemmy.
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zecg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, lemmy in general needs content. A lot of content is news and having bots post the news is not different from hooking up an rss feed to fill the feed. It’s not the bots that are the problem, it’s motivations of those who program them. Are the bots shilling a service/product/viewpoint?
SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 11 months ago
Magnetar@feddit.de 11 months ago
But you wouldn’t hook up an RSS feed into lemmy, you would use the feed directly.
The interesting part is the user interaction, if it’s just a torrent of bot posts no user is interested in engaging.
sab@kbin.social 11 months ago
I couldn't agree more with the last sentence. I would much rather have less content but knowing that everything I see some human in the other end found it worthwhile posting.
dismalnow@kbin.social 11 months ago
Agreed. I would much rather see fewer posts than bot content. A human OP is going to engage in conversation, and is also likely able to provide more context on the topic of their OP.
I've taken to blocking obvious bots (extremely high post:comment ratio) to keep the same feel as the fediverse had since "rexit".