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Yeah I'm testing new reposting tool. Why
When posting in communities in the instance please follow the automation guidelines (Section 2 and 3 match the most) https://legal.programming.dev/docs/automation-guidelines/
Notably the section that says 75% of recent content should be human created not automatic and accounts with automation should be marked as such
It tends to make each individual post do worse as well when theyre spammed like this at once
Just a measure to make sure this stays a human zone and not bots spamming everyones post feeds for all the different communities without any sort of curation
Yeah, I don’t mind the bots pulling stuff over in an effort to generate a bit of a network effect, but I deleted my comment after I realized my entire home screen is filled with this guy‘s posts.
I spoke prematurely and for that apologies. Some moderation discussion def needed and it seems they understand.
Carry on. Ignore my old man grumpy sass.
There are less than 8k MAUs in this community, it doesn't need a firehose of memes from elsewhere.
Ok. Duly noted. Again I was just testing something.
You think 8k may is a chicken and an egg problem though? It seems like like there is no content so there are no users - I'm just trying to fix that is that ok if we bump lemmy userbase?
At least space the posts out. No more than 1 per hour. And even then that gets annoying when one community is dominated by one poster.
Even that may be too much. If my limited feed is full of memes, I'll unsubscribe.
I like it if it's curated (manualy selected to be the best of). I remember mass posting things from Digg to Reddit 17 years ago.
Add a source link toward old.reddit. Even if reddit is terrible, we shouldn't stoop as low as not giving proper attribution.
Also send git :3
I'll add it. I'm just testing now.
Even better, use a Redlib instance instead of old.reddit
Git? Like Microsoft GitHub? Why give Microsoft traffic?
There's other guy forges than GitHub. Like gitlab, codeberg, etc...
He means to ask if you tool is open sourced. If so, he wanted to look at the code
because when I wrote the above comment, around 80% or 90% of my lemmy homepage was just your posts, which felt kinda spammy
So thats about to change. There will be a lot more content On lemmy