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I’m cool with people stealing content from Reddit and posting it here. In fact I encourage it.
But yeah. A bot just auto posting is tiresome. No real curation of the best stuff.
I've blocked L4sbot and lemmy is substantially better.
Not unilaterally. Linking to reddit is fine, but bots that just repost links are not. If you, a person, find something on reddit that's worthwhile (a comic that's only posted on reddit, or a thread detailing a tech solution, or something else) and link it, then that's fine. You, a person, found value on another site and shared it. I don't care what a bot thinks. I care what you, my fellow lemming, thinks.
Yea if you want to steal something from Reddit, copy the content and paste it here. Don't just post a link and direct traffic back to that shithole.
Exactly
*click link to directing you to reddit...
*It's either a Twitter screen cap or a 4chan greentext...
It’s funny to me that there’s a “Reddit” section on the fediverse where people just post complaints about Reddit. Just get over it already and move on.
It's still helpful to talk about what's going on elsewhere
- see what we can do better
- see what good features are worth adopting here
- Calling out bad actions by other platforms. We don't HAVE to help people that aren't on the Fediverse, but there are a lot of experienced and knowledgeable people on here that can discuss issues and how we can address them
It's something a lot of members had in common when that was most popular... reddit experience and Splez angst.
Yes, so much "auto archive" spam. What are you archiving? A link? Because there isn't any actual content there. As an aside, jerboa has an option to block bot accounts, so that's what I've been doing now
Agree, doesn't really make sense to engage with them since the original post and discussions are somewhere else. I think the point of these bots is to create more content to attract new people here on lemmy
Yes, there’s no engagement so no point.
There are some subreddits I don't want to just lose and I don't expect them to grow super fast here. I'm glad for these bots, they give me the choice u/spez is trying to steal from me.
I saw the same thing once I got into bluesky. It was just a bunch of screenshots and links to Twitter.
I think treating Reddit like an other source of information (whether valuable or not) is fine to reference for conversation or topics. While I’m pissed at what the overlords there have done, it still has a large source of community based information.
I agree, but only with the amendment that links to reddit only be text posts and comment chains, or otherwise reddit-exclusive things such as /r/place.
Images and links should bypass reddit altogether and just link to the first source link (ie, the news article or w/e), or be posted as a lemmy image post with a credit citation in the description.
Nobody wants to have to click through 3 different pages to learn who's winning what war or to see a picture of a cat.
Yeah. It’s been discussed a fair bit. There are/were a few different projects doing this, with the intent of “jumpstarting” or “kickstarting” communities on Lemmy. Some of the larger instances defederated from them. I don’t feel like it’s a solid theory either.
It’s necessary in some cases
I rather it be a screencap and then a link in the description or a comment. I just rather not a direct link.
If you don't like it, block them.
Thanks I will, but the theme of the community is not what I object to, it’s the link to Reddit content.
Fair enough.
Although the rss feed feature is broken so there's been no posts for a few days, [email protected] is one I used to track PC part sales. It was mirroring from Reddit, but just one easily blocked user from anyone not interested. We don't have enough people frequenting RedFlagDeals and if we rely on individuals posting deals it will be way too late. That community saved me from needing to check Reddit at all.