I want to see this community in my feed. I appreciate many of the bots round here. I just think it is spectacularly boneheaded to be botposting Reddit in this particular community. It does not work here.
I disagree, an AITA community won’t really work here until it is easy for people to make a throwaway account and know they will get responses. So for now reading them posted over from Reddit keeps me from going on Reddit.
Honestly, I sympathise with that. I miss them too. But I don’t think you can build a community by dumping a lot of zero-replies posts on it. It is providing some good reading but it can’t supply any engagement.
I may be noticing it more because I browse by new to keep my feed updated more often. So I get half a page of bot-posted threads in this community and it stands out more than it might otherwise.
Your point about the need for throwaways is a good one. I’m sure I did sign up to a Lemmy instance without having to give an email address but if I did, I can’t remember which one. And of course, that policy makes all of Lemmy vulnerable to bad actors. It would be good to have an instance that specialised in throwaways though.
Also every few days the bot seems to not work because nothing new comes up then when it starts working again a whole bunch load up all at once.
If you loaded up Lemmy around when it started working again then you would have been inundated with them.
I like your idea about throwaway servers where you can maybe only throwaway accounts can post but only regular users and the OP can reply in the post so you don’t get a bunch of bots in the comments.
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I want to see this community in my feed. I appreciate many of the bots round here. I just think it is spectacularly boneheaded to be botposting Reddit in this particular community. It does not work here.
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I disagree, an AITA community won’t really work here until it is easy for people to make a throwaway account and know they will get responses. So for now reading them posted over from Reddit keeps me from going on Reddit.
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Honestly, I sympathise with that. I miss them too. But I don’t think you can build a community by dumping a lot of zero-replies posts on it. It is providing some good reading but it can’t supply any engagement.
I may be noticing it more because I browse by new to keep my feed updated more often. So I get half a page of bot-posted threads in this community and it stands out more than it might otherwise.
Your point about the need for throwaways is a good one. I’m sure I did sign up to a Lemmy instance without having to give an email address but if I did, I can’t remember which one. And of course, that policy makes all of Lemmy vulnerable to bad actors. It would be good to have an instance that specialised in throwaways though.
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Also every few days the bot seems to not work because nothing new comes up then when it starts working again a whole bunch load up all at once. If you loaded up Lemmy around when it started working again then you would have been inundated with them.
I like your idea about throwaway servers where you can maybe only throwaway accounts can post but only regular users and the OP can reply in the post so you don’t get a bunch of bots in the comments.