I noticed there’s a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?

I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

  • Lubricate7931@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Seems fine to me. The news ones I’m subsrcibed to means I don’t actually miss anything that I found reddit was useful for

    • Seigest@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      I suppose it’s a bit more sensible for news related subs. The reddits ines sre likley using bots to find the news and post it, though such bots may not exist for lemmy yet and its just easier to scrape from reddit.

      But then I see somthing like the ask reddit sub on Lemmy. It’s just all of the questions none of the answers and no engagement at all. Some of the content is years old.Why does that need to exist? I can understand the idea of a reddit archive but why use lemmy for it?

      I’m also wondering about the ethicacy of it. I’m annoyed at Reddit for not allowing me to delete my old content. There’s a lot of folks threating legal action and such over reddit denying people the right to remove that content. Now we are copying that content. I assume without consent of those who’d posted it, and adding it to our own platform.

      Though perfectly legal, is that really a good idea? Is that what we as lemmy users actually want? does this actually improve the platform?

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

    So, you’re saying we need another bot to copy the comments too?

    • Andreas@feddit.dk
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      1 year ago

      I’m working on that one! Fork of lemmit.online, so it doesn’t need API access.

      Don’t worry about it spamming instances. This bot posts so much that it will be automatically blocked from any instance that uses the default Lemmy rate limits, so all bot deployments will have to run on an instance that is specifically for them.

      Source code for the bot will be released on July 1st if Reddit doesn’t introduce a breaking change on that day and if I don’t receive a good argument as to why this bot will destroy the Fediverse.

        • Dran@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It’s a stopgap for people who want to fully switch to lemmy but don’t have all the communities they need yet. I’m finding news to be especially lacking, for example. I’d love to be able to put up a second account with some r/o access to reddit communities to get headlines and know what I need to seek out and get informed about.

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          1 year ago

          I don’t use Reddit for the interaction, average Redditors are annoying to interact with. Reddit’s value to me is the amount of information it contains. It’s supposed to be like copy pasting a book that has DRM, so you can make use of the content without worrying that the book’s copyright holder will use it to screw you over eventually.

  • simple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some people want to follow Reddit content without opening it. You can block the bot posting these if it’s annoying. I did that and never saw it again.