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Replicating reddit content from AITA (feddit.ch)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

What's your opinion on the repost bot in the AITA community? From my perspective, it provides little to no value to cross post such content from another website.

First of all, AITA lives off the comments and if there aren't any, it's not really entertaining to read the posts.

Second, if someone hypothetically replied here, it would never reach the OP on reddit, so it's not meaningful to make the effort.

And last but not least, if there are sometimes dozens of reposts per hour here, it drowns any interesting original content on Lemmy.

So overall I guess it brings more harm than good.

PS: Originally I planned to post this in the AITA community directly but ironically it's locked down to "mods only". So there's not even a chance to have there any original content.

Regards, rbn

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[–] thelsim 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not for AITA, but I once wrote a long emotional response to a relationship reddit repost without realizing it what it really was. Only after hitting send did I finally see. It really sucked because I thought I was helping the OP with some advice and comfort and felt like a huge idiot afterwards.
So, yea.. there's no real value in reposting these kinds of messages if you can't even reach out to the OP. And it just feels kind of scummy to be discussing these kinds of issues without the OP even being able to read along.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The bot should really be bidirectional. Like message the Reddit OP if there are replies here / respond to the original thread. But I don’t think Reddit would allow that

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

No. The bot shouldn’t exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, reddit should be reddit and lemmy should be lemmy.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy should be Lemmy

Man you're missing the entire point of federation. The whole idea is it's not just one site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The whole idea is that there's no single point of control.

The whole idea does not include dumping spam from whatever other sites on lemmy. No one is interacting with this crap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not if they found out