It exists and people hate it. If you want reddit go to reddit.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Yeah, I blocked that on sight
When I see a community full of bot threads, I see an empty community.
I honestly do not understand when people complain about Lemmy being too empty. That's not my experience at all, not even close! My subscribed feed is pretty tame (intentionally), but if I switch to all, I can scroll and scroll until I'm like "maybe I should take a break" and I'm still only seeing posts from like 3h back. There is so much going on here, how are people going around saying it's dead?
I find the communities i'm most interested about extremely empty, about to respond to a post then I notice it was made weeks ago..
Is it a time sensitive topic?
Not necessarily, but replying to days-weeks old topics feels a little pointless, maybe from my experience from reddit itself.
This isn't reddit.
It's pointless when there is so much content that it gets drowned out by the time it's a few days old. It's not pointless when that isn't true.
Many people sort by active or new comments and even days old threads will show up there if someone replies.
If it's in the Fediverse, you can talk to it and it might talk back. I love that ageless feature!
Are there bigger versions of the same communities elsewhere? One of the problems at the moment is duplicates, and finding the one where people have coalesced can be be hard, sometimes just dumb luck.
Ikr, I never run out of internet in the fediverse.
- people have already done this so its not a novel idea and
- the reason why most people that have seen these bots hate them is because they contribute nothing of value. There is no discussion, there is no content that Reddit does not have by definition
If you find an empty community and wish there were most posts, maybe post something.
In addition to what other users said: quality matters. 90% of the content of any subreddit is trash, and bots are unable to sieve the 10% of good stuff from that trash. As such, most [all?] bots automatically bringing content from Reddit are bound to litter Lemmy and make it worse, not better.
The same applies to most users there, too. There are a few rational people there, and we should attract them to Lemmy if/when possible, but most redditors are dead weight and trash, and do a great favour to Lemmy if they stay in Reddit.
that exists in instances such as lemmit.online
the issue with having that in the main communities is communication will be one way if you try to reply to that. Theres bots such as the l4s bot that is in the middle of the two that ocasionally cross-posts link posts that are popular though. Thats still controversial but can be easily blocked
No
Server costs, spam, single-sided-coversations
convs. here got a little heated, try not adding to the fire. Also, in my case I don't like it caz the comments are dead, if someone posts a meme, caz they found it funny, I respond, thet respond, we have a nice chat. If it's posted by a bot, none of this applies, comment section ia dead, imagine this thread, but without you responding at all.. Yeah, not so pretty.
And also Lemmy lacks content only if you doomscroll it. Try getting a life, I don't mean that in a toxic way, some ppl here are much more cultured, ask for a book recommendation or something, and when you ran out of fresh posts, try reading a bit.
Your comments regarding niche commjnites having week old to no posts, well, if you're part of that community, try posting! Maybe someone is the same way as you, but didn't voice it, just left the site.
you can't find communities? Try posting to a wuestion whether it exists or not.
And btw: you're here for a reason, and it's not that you're being forced. Instead of making this plave heated and toxic, try leaving (you'll soon learn that it's not worth being the keyboard warrior, I know, I was you/it), not permanently, but for like a day or something.
No, people tried that, it's horrible. Bot activity makes people leave communities, not join them.
I think maybe you need to curate your feed a bit better?
meh. im getting plenty of content out of kbin.
Me too. I think we might have more content via kbin than even the lemmyverse, because of the microblogs.
The worst thing to do would be an inorganic botch job on here to fill a gap when there's no need, you can read that content elsewhere.
Anyway, it's not an automatic guarantee of engagement or interaction. It's purely a hack move.
I'm happy to use Reddit if I feel I can't find anything to read on Kbin. You are allowed to use both you know?
I left reddit, and pretty much stay away from it. I don't want to give advertising revenue to reddit. And so I suggest federating with reddit is not a good idea. As you say, "it's over there, if we need/want it", to paraphrase.
it's been done. it is not good and every time i see one of those spam bots i block it. if i didn't, browsing 'all' would be mostly zero conversation reddit links. it makes the lemmy experience much better without them, imho.
why not invite more people
I've been trying the subtle 'send friends cool posts from the fediverse', as I wasn't having much luck explaining what the fediverse is/ why we should leave the corporate social media behind.