Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.
At first it didn’t bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.
I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.
Yea me too … I don’t think I really know what this is about.
I’ve recently got the feeling that there is a pocket of lemmy that is much more of a reddit replication than I was aware of. Like, I think a bunch of the big communities over on lemmy.world like TIL or Asklemmy etc (I’m not sure I subscribe to any of these) are all affiliated and moderated by the same team … which seems like a pretty dedicated effort to getting a new-Reddit set up. Cool if that’s your thing … but I’d be guessing that it’s in that sort of space that bots are more prevalent??
Blocking the lemmit bot was enough to avoid them for me.
what’s that bot? Does it cross post from reddit?
Yes
https://lemmit.online/u/bot
That all seems to be contained on an instance and communities dedicated to Reddit cross posting, which I’m fine with TBH, though eventually you’d expect this space to grow out of that.
From what I understand, mastodon went through the same phase, with at some point a lot of traffic coming from some sort of Twitter consumption, which has since faded away.