It does make sense, it is quite a good idea to generate content to attract people!
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.
I actually had a chat with the creator of this bot, @L3s@lemmy.world earlier today. I informed him that bots are only allowed when they are requested or approved by the community’s moderator. I believe the creator has good intentions and he seemed to understand why it would be a bad idea to simply copy unfiltered content. You should no longer see posts of this bot outside of the communities he has an approval for.
On the other hand, I added lemmy.link to the banned instances as they were clearly just spamming, even posting TMZ ads. Their bot @linkbot@lemmy.link was also banned.
So, wether or not bots are allowed that is up to the community moderators. As long as they follow the general rules on content moderation and they have the moderators’ approval.
Yeah, replying to your other messages, appreciate your work here, your work dealing with the hacker was way faster than I expected. It’s a little bit less than what I want, but then again, I did choose this instance because you guys seem the most reasonable and careful about making serious decisions like defederation, so I guess it’s about what I’ve expected.
Anyways, for a community like this, where the sole mod appears completely inactive, it’s not great to have a bot running completely rampant. If you can, please have a talk about this with the maker of the ChatGPT bot about this rule too, because I’ve seen that bot running loose in the comments on a number of communities, even those it was not really appreciated in.
Lastly, separate topic since I have your attention here, because the mods over at c/android have abandoned their positions and locked their community in favor of one on another instance despite the concerns of many of us here (some being quite vocal), and that there is still a demand since there are still activities in those threads even yesterday, I’d like to request moderating the abandoned c/android, since I was a fairly active participant when the community was active, and I’d like of think of myself as decently well liked on this instance despite my dumb shenanigans here.
A lot of the top content on Reddit was fun and engaging, but it wasn’t really important to talk about. Like ads that are actually enjoyable?
I think spamming content isn’t real content anyways. Feels gross to engage with a bot
