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?

  • jeffhykin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I feel like any reddit that asks questions should not have a Lemmy bot. Like I just saw a bot for r/whatisthis and I just can’t understand the logic. Who would EVER answer a question when the OP can’t even see the response. I didn’t want to rant about it, but really, how can we get in contact with the bot creators???

    Meanwhile, something as simple as calvin and hobbs clips are being manually posted on a daily schedule by a regular Lemmy user.

    • rglullisAEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.