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Most postings on lemmy are simply Reddit “archive” bots. Why is this so prevalent?

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[–] spacesape@lemmy.nrsk.no 11 points 1 year ago

>We’re trying to build communities. A good way to do it is to have bots post content, so there’s stuff to see on our feeds.

There's always ups and downs with everything. By using bots you might get subscribers, but people like me who don't agree with being force fed robot spam will actively avoid such subs.

In fact I find it so disagreeable I refuse to donate resources so people can host spam on my instance instead of actually posting content themselves.

I would not like to be part of a community that finds auto-generated content to be of an acceptable quality.