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.
NTA.
AITA is not about sharting funny content and then asking “am I an asshole or what”, it’s a way for the OP to invite (hopefully) honest and civilized discussion and criticism about their actions, without risking verbal abuse or being downvoted to hell. When a bot reposts an existing question without the OP’s knowledge, it loses the line of communication between OP and the community and the entire point of an AITA post. Populating the fediverse with content is important, but compromising the entire reason that content exists is not the way to build a community.
edit: sharing, not sharting. I’m not changing it because funny.
edit: sharing, not sharting. I’m not changing it because funny.
You mean the !AmItheAsshole@lemmit.online community? The entire lemmit.online instance is literally meant as a Reddit post archive, as you can read in the pinned post on the instance’s main page.
You’re not an asshole, but you’re misinformed and failed to do your research.
You’re not wrong, but to be fair it didn’t seem like something I’d need to research since it just showed up in my feed, and it still seems like a rather lame thing to do when building a community. To each their own though, if people want to read Reddit on Lemmy…
I think, and I may be wrong here, but that’s for archiving things that could potentially be important. Like, for AITA, someone might asked, and another could look for answers on that situation.
To me, it just seems like archival purposes. Just think how many times you’ve searched for something, and the best result is reddit. Having all of that hosted here as well, can become a backup incase reddit, some how, fully buries itself. No point losing tons of helpful information.
Edit: I forgot. It doesn’t do comments. So, I guess some subs would be a bit more pointless saving. I can see it being helpful for others where comments aren’t really needed though, but that doesn’t happen often.
A bit off-topic, but AITA is a community I don’t mind if it stays on Reddit.
It’s either fake stories, people looking for approval, people who don’t mind their own lives, or arm-chair psychologists taking guesses.
Ugh you’re right. I admit I’ve scrolled through AITA more often than I should, because something about it is really entertaining.
But it’s like junk food, I don’t really feel good when I’m done with it. More vindictive, like those revenge subs. Being off Reddit has reduced how much I see it, and I don’t particularly want to go back to that.
