I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.
Scraping bots make lemmy seem like a cheap repost bothouse. I am here for actual human conversations!
The only way that I think scraping bots are helpful would be for purely archivale purposes. I wish someone would create an Instance that scrapes old Reddit posts and information and posts that information solely on that instance. Scraping new content and posting it here to Lemmy is not even using Lemmy, we’ve just gone back to Reddit at that point.
Have you heard of the recent gravity wave (GW) announcement? They’ve found a GW analog to the cosmic microwave background. I’ve been wondering, when we can detect these waves well enough, we might see the imprints of alien spaceships going FTL, zipping across the stars. Or we might just see really cool colliding stars and black hole mergers. Either way, the waves are apparently a little louder than expected.
Anyway, that’s my attempt at conversation. What’s going down your side of town?
No, they are garbage. I block every single one I come across. Else Lemmy is nothing but an echo chamber.
There is a block bots setting in the user settings as well, although it may also block useful ones.
Many of them just link back to reddit, no idea what’s useful about that
Hate 'em and immediately disabled the option to view bot posts
as long as the amount of scraping is very limited, e.g. copying the top 3 posts of a subreddit daily, it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal 🤔
