I see accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, I would be fine with some alt account that would be willing to talk about why and how they are doing the bots.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know they were using bots now, but I can probably answer the "why". They are on a crusade against .ml. It has being going on for a long time. Are a lot of the posts you see duplicates of content posted to some .ml community, but not using the actual cross-posting function?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, indeed! The bot is taking posts from .ml and re-homing them in different instances. So I guess now I understand the argument (but not accepting the conclusion) from @givesomefucks@lemmy.world.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they would just cross-post like a normal person I would take much less of an issue with it.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Funnily, I don't like how cross-posts are presented in Lemmy's UI. But I see why straight reposts would be poorly received.

I for one would like to have a "community following community" system, where moderators could subscribe to one community and then let the community actor send a post while keeping the original author. It would basically kill the need of what these bots are doing and it would keep attribution to the original poster.