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submitted 2 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 hours ago

Gnutsak

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

With a K!

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 28 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's how you know it's a KDE app.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 3 points 1 hour ago

G for old gtk app would be funnier.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

bro are you just mass-crossposting things from reddit or what? Those camel case titles aren't really common here, you know.

[+] sanitation@lemmy.radio -7 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

Yeah I'm testing new reposting tool. Why

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

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

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Hey. My bad I was testing something. This was not automatic though. There is approval moderation queue and posts are all human reviewed

[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

that still automatically pulls the content even if its manually reviewed which makes it go out much faster than any people manually making memes would be able to post at

just space things out so youre not doing more than a couple a day here and dont just copy titles and stuff 1 for 1

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

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[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] 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 45 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 52 minutes ago* (last edited 47 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

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'll add it. I'm just testing now.

[–] nkk@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Even better, use a Redlib instance instead of old.reddit

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There are less than 8k MAUs in this community, it doesn't need a firehose of memes from elsewhere.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago) (1 children)

Ok. Duly noted. Again I was just testing something.
You think 8k MAU 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?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Giloron@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Even that may be too much. If my limited feed is full of memes, I'll unsubscribe.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 55 minutes ago

I think that was content from last 2 days on reddit - is that too much? Also yes there is a cap automated postings in there.

[–] Sphks@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 46 minutes ago

It is curated. I can either manually review and approve or auto post. In his case all was manually curated, human reviewed and approved

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

because when I wrote the above comment, around 80% or 90% of my lemmy homepage was just your posts, which felt kinda spammy

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 0 points 1 hour ago

So thats about to change. There will be a lot more content On lemmy

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 0 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

If they are, that's good for Lemmy.

Helps with the network effect.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 36 minutes ago

Nope. Network effect happens if there's a network. For that you need an adequate amount of eyes per post so that people can start commenting and discussing stuff with one another.

Dump in hundreds of copy-posted memes without enlarging the user base and it does exactly the opposite of the network effect: With much more posts per viewer, the viewers are spread thin over the posts which means there are never enough people on one post to actually start a meaningful discussion in the comments.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"Network effect."

It's spam.

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

But it's not. U see any ads ? do you want to continue enjoying quality memes once a month instead?

[–] Jestzer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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