One that that has made me unsubscribe from several communities here is when they are just bot-lead reposts of the equivalent subreddit. This makes these communities on lemmy objectively worse than the reddit equivalent because there is not the population to interact with the sheer volume of posts, and it just becomes spam without engagement.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Some of those even link to the reddit thread! So if anything it diverts Lemmy users back to reddit.

[–] Tamo@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Totally agree. There's no reason to respond to posts where the OP on Reddit will never see it, and the bot posts drown out any genuine user posts.

It works for a small number of cases, but on the whole it's a misguided attempt to fake content instead of growing communities naturally and it needs to go.

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 11 points 1 year ago

Many many years before the reddit migration, /r/goldandblack had a lotide instance that consisted mainly of posts crossposted by a bot.

The constant dump of empty posts on my feed really helped me understand that you don't want to blindly mirror reddit posts. If you just want a list of stories, an rss feed is better. You come to a link aggregator for the discussion around the links and without the discussion it's just a crappy version of an RSS feed.

Some people who haven't experienced a ghost city online don't realize that.

[–] tsz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same here, and honestly the quality is just trash,save for a few decent communities. No one went to reddit for the content. All the value is in the comments, and here there's either very little interaction, or a worse circle jerk than reddit ever had. There are exceptions, but that's been my experience.