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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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think repost bots would be really good for QnA communities whose answers are relevant even after a while. Examples of such communities in my sphere would be r/askscience, r/cscareerquestions, etc. That would increase lemmy's use quite a lot imo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not really practical or possible to copy comments (answers) though... you just get the questions and answers on lemmy will never reach the original poster on reddit.

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

Yeah fair enough. It would just become something like a wiki if it was done this way. I dunno how comfortable I am with lemmy having posts like these...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It wouldn’t. Repost bots are a plague that drive off actual engagement