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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] teydam@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds good to me but also i can get my news from google news so I hope the bot is posting non-mainstream stuff. reddit felt like democrat astroturfing. like too much majory taylor greene. I like to laugh at em too but it just felt.... bought out. HA. bot out. bought out.

[–] Burp@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Google news is actually fantastic. I picked it up when Reddit dropped and it’s been a great time killer. Encouraged me to sub to a news site and read articles and less comments. Kbin/lemmy have been like a nicotine patch to get off Reddit.

[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Besides porn and sports bots i don't see them as problem, but you can disable being shown marked bots.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I get why they exist but my new feed gets spammed with the same bot, same article posted to three communities. excessive

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Depends on the community and the articles I guess. Not a fan of bots making posts unless it's in comments for something useful like auto TLDR or something.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't mind about people only posting news articles, so long as they actively participate to the discussion in the comments.

For bots as long as they identify themselves as bots then at least I can block them if they feel too spammy for me.

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