Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.

Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.

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[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (10 children)

No one engages in bot content and many completely block it.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 1 week ago (9 children)

That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.

Most people don't even recognize it's a bot.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Microwave is not a bot

https://lemmy.world/post/34751749/18910079

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

18.4k posts, and his only two comments are those.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

That's because they delete their old comments.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Still not a bot.

If that account is a bot, it should be flagged as such, and LW admins are usually looking closely at those cases.

@MrKaplan@lemmy.world, I assume you checked whether Microwave was a bot or not?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

That's because they delete their old comments.

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

there is currently nothing I can see that would be a strong bot indicator. there are various indicators of an actual human using the account.

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