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What are your thoughts on bots and people posting only news articles on lemmy? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by catboss@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As the service grows, I have noticed more and more people and bots popping up, only posting links to a news article and that's that. Usually there is no post, no summary and nothing from the OP but the link.

What do you all think about this?

Do you think it's a good thing, because it is providing content? Do you maybe find it annyoing and if so, why?

I myself am happy when people take the time out of their say to try to provide content, but for me it's a bit low effort a lot of the times. Bots I tend to block immediately and people it they make it hard for me to reader other posts between all their link-posting.

But I am more curious how you all think about this and whether you consider it good or bad.

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like it will be increasingly used for propaganda, not discussion. By cherry picking articles, these news accounts will try to shape public opinion.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Whether or not it’s posted by a bot, real users are the one commenting and voting on it. It’s not going to be useful for spreading propaganda unless it’s something the user base already believes

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I doubt they'll be turned off, it's just hopefully we get enough real users to drown them out