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Lemmy, AITA for disliking copied content from Reddit in the AmITheAsshole community? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by iamanurd@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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?

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[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

I block every community that bot posts in. I don’t want to see endless posts with zero discussion or engagement from anyone. It’s just noise to me.

[-] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Personally I just blocked the bot.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

As a mobile app user, I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. Memmy has the option but I don’t know if it actually works.

[-] Fortychops@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Go to the site on web browser and block it there. It won’t show up on your app afterwards

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the tip! I found an app (wefwef) to literally replace my habits from the Good Place and haven’t bothered to actually learn much about this place yet.

[-] Fortychops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I started out with wefwef, it’s really good. I’ve switched over to Memmy now as I find it better replicates my Apollo experience on iOS, but a solid +1 for wefwef

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Yea i keep going between memmy and wefwef, haven’t looked at mlem in a while. Wefwef has some weird performance glitches and memmy keeps getting better so may have to make memmy my main again, we’ll see!

[-] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The lack of discussion isn't because it's a bot post though, nine times outta ten. I'm all for more content as long as it isn't obvious spam. The more content for me to interact with the better

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