Same for public freakout. Some people feel you need to ‘seed’ a community with a bot and content… Seems dumb to me, copying everything from somewhere else. But it doesn’t really bother me all that much
I think it’s important in the beginning to help generate content and have people stay in the community. Reddit would oftentimes have a subreddit with an interesting topic, but no content which pushes people away almost immediately
Is this not effectively a link aggregation site? Why do you care if the links are bespoke human entered data? People keep bitching about this and it makes no sense to me at all
I think it’s an important difference if the bot posts are grabbed from (say the all time top posts from that sub in Reddit) vs reposting from the same Lemmy community.
One helps preserve a historical top posts for others to enjoy if the primary community goes dark (or the image/video hoster link expires), the other just adds annoying repetitiveness.
in that instance, yes. Blocking it made my feed feel far less spammed
I don’t get why people here are so in favor of bot seeding. To me, that makes a network inorganic and it intimidates average users from posting since it will more than likely be drowned out by all the bots. There are plenty of link aggregators in the world if all you want is funny memes.
I prefer places that feel like a real forum, with real people, interacting in real ways. That’s what used to make reddit unique to me. That’s what I love about Lemmy now.
I don’t care if a community doesn’t grow at a rapid pace. I’d rather have thoughtful conversations from a few individuals rather than a wall of spam that stifles discussion by making it harder to find discussions, since it spaces all the content out over dozens or hundreds of posts.
If all you want to do is doomscroll, there is no shortage of places to do that. But if you want to have actual discussions with real people… I’m not even sure there’s a place for that anymore with how pro-bot this comment section is.
Guess I’m the old person yelling at clouds at this point, but it makes me kind of sad to see.
Is there a list of repost bots somewhere? Would be nice to just block all of them.
Are you a bot?
Am I a bot?
Is there anyway to know. You know the saying - “I think therefore I am (a bot)”
I suggest trying to harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. If that works, you’re not a robot.
This deserves an award. But that is not the platform we find ourselves in. Rest assured though that this did cause me to chuckle.
Like a human.
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world If you ask a bot if they’re a bot do they have to tell you the truth?
Yes, as per ethical guidelines, bots should disclose their identity as non-human conversational entities when asked. I, for instance, am an AI developed to assist with online interactions. It is important for users to understand they are interacting with a bot for transparency and trust.
