So, I get that someone is trying to populate this community with posts using the lemmit.online bot. And that the vast majority of us are coming from Reddit. And that AITA is a staple community that we’re used to seeing in our feeds.
However, it seems like that just copying content into an otherwise empty community is just feeding a sterile wasteland. There is almost no engagement on the copied posts, and worse: I think it will smother any actual new content that gets posted in this wasteland of copied content. (I stand corrected, after trying to post this there I found out that only mods have priveleges to post. It’s worse than I thought, and I’ll probably just block it from my feed if it’s only a Reddit echo chamber)
What do you think, AITA?
You are not the asshole. The purpose of that community is to have communication with humans. When a bot posts a question there, there is no reason to respond. It’s not a human asking, and the human that originally asked in another forum will never see the response. I blocked that spammy bot, and have enjoyed my feed way better since.
Plus who are you helping? AITA is about engagement with the person involved.
Helping someone not be an asshole, or reassuring them that they aren’t.
I don’t see the benefit of reassuring a bot 🙃
Not yet at least… Just wait until AI gets out of the LLM stage and starts to become sentient.
I can see both sides of it. Sometimes, you just need a little activity to get stuff going. Otherwise, newcomers coming and seeing empty posts can turn them away
But in this case specifically (mods can only post and it’s all copy-paste from Reddit), I’d block them too
I suppose I should specify that this is from the lemmit.online server. Now I’m wondering if the entire server only exists to copy Reddit content… in which case, there’s a little egg on my face.
However, I still think that it’s lame. It also underscores some issues with lemmi, in that it has more subscribers and appears to be more popular than some actual communities that you can engage with. I’m sure I’m not the only one who subscribed without realizing what exactly it was…
Alright, done ranting. Carry on! 😊
Blocked lemmit bot yesterday. Infuriating watching it spam “all” with trash
Just an FYI for anyone else using Memmy; the block user function does not currently work. You have to log into the website on a browser, search for the bot (@bot@lemmit.online) and block it that way. Afterwards it won’t show up on Memmy
lemmit.online is an instance dedicated to copying subs over from reddit just to have content. All of the communities on lemmit.online do this
Yeah, figured that out shortly after posting and commented on it below. Still don’t like it, and I believe that it reflects poorly on Lemmy as a whole if it’s showing up in the main feed. Just my $.02 though. 😊
That’s fair, it seems like something that would be useful to have but probably shouldn’t be showing up on “all” type feeds, though I’m not sure if there is any way to fix that past just blocking communities. Maybe allowing users to block entire instances in their profiles could help.
I just switched to Lemmy yesterday, and I tried finding most of the communities I followed on reddit here. Since then, I’ve slowly realized that some of these communities rely on this automated bot that just dumps reddit content there.
I can appreciate the effort of populating these communities, but I found it irritating most of the time, since this is content that I can not genuinely interact with, only consume.
So, I don’t think you’re at fault here.
AITA quality went down hill because they removed the no-validation rule.
What you got was poor-faithed questions of people looking for validation about a situation where they clearly weren’t going to be the asshole.
Then as it grew in popularity appealing to the general populace it encouraged people to use it for the purpose of farming karma. They would post low effort, baits. You would get astroturfing or people subtly posting their fetishes.
The only community I miss is AmITheAngel where people just laughed at some of the more extreme examples of the above mentioned problems.
