Hi all,

What’s your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren’t any, it’s not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it’s not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it’s locked down to “mods only”. So there’s not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

  • DogMuffins
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    1 year ago

    No, reddit should be reddit and lemmy should be lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy should be Lemmy

      Man you’re missing the entire point of federation. The whole idea is it’s not just one site.

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        1 year ago

        The whole idea is that there’s no single point of control.

        The whole idea does not include dumping spam from whatever other sites on lemmy. No one is interacting with this crap.