If a human posted every 5 min, got 0 upvotes for 20 posts straight, we would ban them for spam. If bots would limit themselves to posting once a day, or once a week, and only post the top-voted non-duplicate post of that timeframe, it would be a dramatic improvement. For once, we might actually see real-lemmy posts along side bot posts, instead of the community being exclusively bots (or 99% bot posts) or exclusively Lemmy users.

I would tell the bot creators myself, except I don’t know how to get in contact with them. Is there a consistent way to contact a bot creator?

  • @rglullisAEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    I don’t think your example is coming from the alien.top bots, but I do see some justifications for mirroring “self” posts:

    • Creation of an archive while Reddit still keeps the API minimally available.
    • Content for lurkers who don’t want to give traffic to Reddit but also are not necessarily interested in interacting with the posts.
    • (In the case of alien.top and fediverser instances in general) The idea that the content being available on Lemmy can ease the migration.