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?
Who cares? If you’re seeing it again it’s because enough people missed it the first time to still upvote it. Sounds like gatekeeping to me?
I don’t have a problem with reposts per se - if it’s made by humans. Reddit in large part has the problem of bot accounts copying other posts, even to the point where top comments are copied too. Upvotes are also likely bot generated.
I don’t want to engage with a social media where it’s just all bots, but I guess that’s too utopian to wish for.