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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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[–] jediToru@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorting by new is swarmed with bot posts. Switched to top - 6H on Sync and the difference is huge. But, any activity on lemmy is good in my books. If a space is to be a pinnacle of perfection, it would be too off putting, like tildes. I rarely visit that site anymore.

[–] soupspoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never seen any of tildes but I'm interested to know what you mean about it being so perfect that it's off putting

[–] jediToru@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

On the occasions I visited, I felt like the discussions were very serious, something a tightly wound community would have and god forbid if I posted something stupid. Also I believe the users cannot create their own communities which left only a handful of things I was interested to browse there. Tildes refuses to be an alternative for reddit with such an adamant stance on quality