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Like I get it there's less people so less content but come on, using bots to just repost shit from reddit? What are we, 9gag now?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sorry but I don’t agree with this logic. Smaller communities are more susceptible to drought. Content is a water supply. I moderate a magazine for The Office (woo woo, shout out) and I bring in content from Reddit as often as I can. It’s a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I agree, as long as it's link to articles and not copying text posts, it's a good measure to help small communities take off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's my opinion too. The only thing people come to these type of sites for is the content and community. Link-copying bots improve the former and improve the opportunities for the latter. It's all upsides and no downsides as far as i can see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with this. As long as it's not too much, and isn't the comments, I think it's fine. I wish there was more engagement, but that will come with time I think

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It litters people's feeds with content devoid of interaction that there's no point in interacting with. It funnels them back to Reddit. It is a mistake.

If you can get the content of a post and post it, that's good. RSS bots are cool. If you can pull the image/link and title from reddit and post it you've got a good recipe. Right now I'm seeing a lot of lemmit and other bots just posting straight links to reddit posts, this is a counterproductive waste of time.