I noticed there’s a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?

I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I feel like it would be better to have a dedicated Reddit-mirror instance that instances can choose to federate with.

    The issue is mirror posts are not organic which is not conducive to high quality discussion. If a community only gets 10 original posts a day but a mirror bot is dumping well over 1000 posts a day, that’s a problem because the organic content will get drowned out and further disincentivize people from posting and actually growing the community.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what https://lemmit.online is.
      I think it is a great idea to have a bot mirroring Reddit’s content onto a lemmy instance. But I agree, we don’t need those bots mucking up actual lemmy communities.