this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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Some communities have bots creating topics, wouldn't this be similar?
Lots of people don't like those communities that are filled with bot posts. A lot of people even disable viewing of bot posts. Most of those bot posts have 0 comments.
I just don't think they're a good example to support your case.
To be honest, I'm not a fan of bots ripping content from Reddit. But these would be humans. You would just be adding a thread inclusive of replies. Unlike bots, toot authors also reply.
The content on Reddit is also submitted by humans (well, mostly).
This assumes that a post pulled from Mastodon to Lemmy will also push comments from Lemmy back to Mastodon (or at least notifications of comments)... which is a real infrastructure problem, and also depends on the Mastodon communities wanting that interaction, and the admins allowing it.
Huh? This functionality is already in place and has been for a while.