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

    • Decoy321@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s entirely understandable. That’s the thing, though. It’s hard to have a community grow on its own, organically, in these times. A large majority of users are rather passive, they don’t actively contribute by posting or commenting so much. If they don’t get enough content on a topic/community, they’ll forget it exists.

      So, to build a community, you get a bot to “seed” it with content until enough people know it exists and contribute stuff themselves.

      It’s weird and fucked and, unfortunately, it’s the world we live in now.

      • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I disagree, it just leads to spam and people blocking the bots, and therefore the communities. I think things will grow organically at whatever speed. People have to realise this isn’t Reddit, and likely won’t ever be as big, and that it’s good that it won’t be.