As long as the bot is allowed to be there it’s not a problem it’s not ideal obviously. It should be considered if it is actually a good idea will the community ever develop if it is just already 100% reddit reposts?
I think it’s kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully the community existing and having regular posts increases the odds of user interaction like comments and votes, which would naturally lead to more and more posts from actual members. Hopefully whoever is running that bot can wind it down while actual engagement ramps up.
Well then, better hope we don’t have “Lemmy repost bots taking over entire communities” happening next.
I mean I’m kind of ok with that, I just don’t want to use reddit. Or am allowed to. Then again reddit is a corporate cesspit so that will start spilling over…
Half those posts I’ve seen here too. It doesn’t really matter tbh. At least the people are nicer here.
I’m not. I really am dreadful
I remember seeing someone being a dick to a post you made and I was upset about it. So I must say I haven’t concluded that you are dreadful yet.
Thanks for the solidarity! I get that sometimes but tbh I get a zillion notifications and rarely read them
yeah but it’s a nice kind of dreadful. like a smallpox pustule with a smiley face drawn on it.
Personally I don’t mind it too much, as long as
- there’s no vote manipulation to artificially boost the post
- there are genuine interactions in the comments
- the account posting this is properly labelled as a bot account (if it’s an actual bot)
Looking at this specific accounts history it seems as if its a regular poster (with a bit controverse ethics about content creation if you will) and as if OP has just labeled the account to be a bot.
Just block it if it bothers you. Lemmy makes this ez pz.
Edit 2: LOL I guess I stuck a nerve. I can’t believe I’m the only one who does this! But apparently I’m the weird one… 😅
Holy shit, dude, I can’t even tell what this post is about because your UI is blown up way too big and it’s distracting me!
Please, allow me to show you how to fix this: Go into Developer Options, and then do a search for “minimum width” (sometimes it’s called “smallest width”, depending on the device), and increase that number until you can actually fit a decent amount of content on the screen. A setting around 450-550dp works best on most screens.
Edit: When configured properly, your UI will look like this. Please note all the extra room for activities! I’ve got nearly double the amount of screen real estate, compared to what you’re looking at!
Lol are you some kind of blind boomer? Why is everything so big on your screen? 🤢🤮
Condescending amateur.
Or maybe some of us have normal sized phones
My phone has a 5.7" screen which is about as normal as it gets. It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting. It’s the very first thing I change when I get a new phone.
It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting.
Are you this condescending to everyone you talk to?
What a stupid waste of time
Don’t be a dick; this is the very first setting I change when I get a new phone, and I can’t be alone in this. So no, it’s not a waste of time, you just can’t admit that you weren’t aware of the setting.
You’re the one being a dick to him about having normal settings on his phone. Pretending it’s unreadable so you can be condescending about it.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Reddit is getting increasingly wonky. Picked up a ban for calling a racist a racist. I’m being hateful. Um, okay?
Don’t call out that, cus that’s just as hateful as hate! /s
Or something like that I presume.
It’s not* even tolerance paradox shit (which only exists if you misunderstand what tolerance is), it’s full blown normalization of biggoted behavior.
It is frustrating for sure. I do appreciate the higher signal to noise ratio in the fediverse and also that it is decentralized, I think it makes for a better experience overall.
Cheers to you. :)
I’m not infuriated by more content that we desperately need.
All of those posts are heavily upvoted and have multiple comments though? Accreditation, etc. are all valid critiques, but I genuinely don’t understand why so many people care about the provenance of posts.
I post pictures of bread I bake and I’m on the upper lower middle side of mid for my baking skills.
If someone picks the best bread on a subreddit with a million members my posts will be buried instantly so what’s the point in adding real content?
The canary sings despite the cage. You don’t have to sing to anyone except for when you want to
That’s a very fancy way of saying, “I bake the middest of mid bread.” And I approve
I think that’s a bad analogy for a few reasons. First, all the examples you’ve posted are specifically meme template-friendly subs, which makes sense since they’re inherently easy to repost. I don’t think think a baking community would have that problem. But even if it did, you could just start a new baking community that bans reposts? Given how unpopular repost bots are, I assume your anti-repost baking community would be more popular than the hypothetical pro-repost baking community that your posts are buried in. Assuming that repost bots are drowning out more organic content, which prima facie doesn’t seem to be the case in either community you screenshotted as examples. Both seem like pretty solid examples of their being no other content.
Structurally speaking, up and down votes should ideally, roughly sort posts by quality. A post being buried (unpopular) in a community isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
If fear of not getting enough internet points is what’s keeping someone from posting, that’s more on them.
If I wanted to battle bots for engagement I’d be on reddit.
You’re not battling anyone for engagement because you’re not posting anything yourself. All you can offer is hyptheticals with no supporting evidence.
Why don’t you go hang out in /askscience or /askhistorians with Portnou if you want all organic content. He and his multiple personalities are posting there dozens of times per day and those communities are just popping off with content and activity.
kinda wierd for someone with a yr history that only posted a few things early on and then a few more 3 months ago who then also is on so unoften he does not recognize your handle to make this statement about your user. had to tag that.
Upset that your daily screenshots of the mod log aren’t getting much engagement? Perhaps you’re jealous that your reposts from /r/news aren’t getting as much traction as time2lose’s reposts? What engagement are you generating other than your current crusade against this specific user?
Edit: its also interesting that not only have you started a crusade against users for posting content that you don’t agree with (even though you don’t hold yourself to the same standard as evidenced by all your own reposts), but you’ve also started a community for you to start a crusade against mods for making decisions that you don’t agree with. There seems to be a pattern here where everything revolves around you and everyone needing to meet your demands.
Um… what?
I don’t mind, if content is interesting. I was forced to post fairly big news no one else bothered with today.
I’d love a lemmy client that next to a username, it gives their post to comment ratio. That tends to give me a solid feel. If they don’t comment on their own posts ever, then they are not here to discuss.
That kind of check is easily evaded. Consider this bot posting automatic, what prevents it from replying to some comments by running it through AI?
You’re right, that’d be a really useful heuristic. I comment way more than I post, but whenever I do post, I always make sure to reply to at least a few of the comments people leave. It feels almost like a duty, and I’d feel bad if I didn’t at least try.
Yeah never been a fan of drive-by posting myself.
Truth be told, I was kind of hoping for a reply of “use this client, it does exactly that!” I’ll let you know if someone gives me one.
A day ago he reposted a meme about a doctor raping a woman because her credit card was declined and she couldnt pay for care.
Thats VILE.
In addition to the slimy pretending that his posts are organic traffic by not just marking his account as a bot, he is also importing the culture of casual sexism from reddit to the threadiverse.
Is that the incel on shit posting?
Yeah, all the gender wars and incel garbage is pretty much just him
https://sh.itjust.works/post/67242461 The post I was referring to
He’s like 14 or at least has the brain of one. I hate the sexist shit he always posts. Let’s keep 4chan shit like that on 4chan
📡📡📡 Lazy-ass poster with dumb emoji titles
enshittification is 100% complete
This is a lemmy problem.
an internet problem
I use browser so don’t get to see the little robot icon. Looking forward to a fix.
I think thats part of OPs tag for the user
Ah i see, and i did, thank you. I now also see the little chip icon, i saw that before and did not realise what it was. I am an idiot.
