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These bot posts are awful for Lemmy engagement.
People see bots posting massive amounts of content, which zero people want discuss in the comments.
There's a couple of instances that seem to be dedicated entirely to reposting bots. Every new person who joins Lemmy either is put off by all the bot spam without users, or they have to block several dozen bots and communities to make a usable experience.
It's no wonder it doesn't grow any faster. I get the idea that we should take a cue from Reddit on this one, and curate a "new-user-friendly" set of default subscriptions for guests and new signups.
Or maybe defederate from nom.mom to get rid of like 75% of this nonsense.