I sort by all and new and have seen a fair amount of posts from bots bringing over content from Reddit. A lot of it doesn’t have much if any engagement on here and as far as I can tell even if there was it wouldn’t cross back and forth between the two platforms.

The communities these bots are posting to seem to have a low amount of subscribers and with the flood of content it seems a bit like a ghost town. Almost like subscribing to the RSS feed of a subreddit.

I’m not up in arms about it. The posts are being made by only a couple of bots into subreddit specific communities (ex. AskReddit) and Lemmy gives you the ability to block communities so this isn’t really showing up in my feed anymore.

The only possible issue I could see in the future is if Lemmy communities tried to link with a subreddit’s. For example an instance’s pc gaming community with /r/PCGaming.

I’m curious to hear how you feel about Reddit content automatically (or even manually) being posted here.

  • Elegast@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Not a huge fan, but I understand the thinking.

    My issue with it, is let’s say there’s a self post and I respond to it. Knowing it’s a bot post, I still want to contribute to the community, but I know I’m unlikely to get a response. It’s possible it could start a conversation here though.

    I get its a way to fill the communities with content, but it feels like a half baked attempt. Or an inflation of interactions.

    Not sure the right route in these early days though.

    • nero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I feel like it can be done for certain things that don’t require interaction from the OP (news content, daily threads, idk) but it feels useless for some others (Questions, etc.) because there’s just no point in answering them and the chance that it starts a discussion is relatively small.

      • CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        One of things I like about Lemmy is that you can create a link post and still include text and subsequent links. Even with news articles I do like when people add additional text whether it’s why they’re posting it, a quote/TLDR, or additional links.

        That might be because it gives me the impression it’s less likely to be clickbait though.

        • Elegast@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          undefined> One of things I like about Lemmy is that you can create a link post and still include text and subsequent links.

          yeah that I really like as well. I can like an image that provides content to the community, but also still talk in the op rather than having to say “more info in comments” or something stupid like that.