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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago

The problem is that Reddit is many orders of magnitude larger than Lemmy. r/comics has 1.5 mio weekly visitors. All of Lemmy combined has just ~50k monthly visitors.

One repost bot alone can swamp all of Lemmy, totally drowning out everything else. The biggest issue there is that it's dead content. The thing that makes something like Reddit or Lemmy better than just a random webcomics feed is the comments. So if a ton of non-organic content gets reposted, that dilutes the comments too much meaning that people don't actually see eachother's comments any more and thus no discussions happen.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

This is all human reviewed posts. Not automatic. Just trying to find a way and bump lemmy userbase count after pigboi messed with reddit mobile browser experience. I don't want to use reddit anymore. I just want to bring reddit with me