Hi all,
What’s your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.
First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren’t any, it’s not really entertaining to read the posts.
Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it’s not meaningful to make the effort.
And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.
So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.
PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it’s locked down to “mods only”. So there’s not even a chance to have there any original content.
Regards, rbn
There’s a tech news bot that regularly gets a lot of community engagement, so blocking all bot accounts would also block part of the good stuff.
You actually can’t block instances. Blocking individual communities and bots when there are so many is terrible UX.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/fd90b1bb0ae24dbcd73df37d0bbbeb0543f07606
Well I didn’t see the option when I looked just now.
Edit: nvm found it