So, I get that someone is trying to populate this community with posts using the lemmit.online bot. And that the vast majority of us are coming from Reddit. And that AITA is a staple community that we’re used to seeing in our feeds.
However, it seems like that just copying content into an otherwise empty community is just feeding a sterile wasteland. There is almost no engagement on the copied posts, and worse: I think it will smother any actual new content that gets posted in this wasteland of copied content. (I stand corrected, after trying to post this there I found out that only mods have priveleges to post. It’s worse than I thought, and I’ll probably just block it from my feed if it’s only a Reddit echo chamber)
What do you think, AITA?
I think a better idea to populate this page with content AND encourage discussion would be a “Best Of” style community. Don’t just blindly copy everything over, but curate the best and encourage discussion around those.
Of course that would take work and I’m not doing that.
A “BestOfAmITheAsshole” community sound like the right answer here. It also needs a lot of context from the comments to make it worthwhile, much like the BestOfRedditUpdates sub. And like you said, that’s a lot of work that won’t be easy to do with just a bot. Maybe someone can figure out a way to do it with chatgpt web.