Yeah, you can downvote if you want. The point being that Lemmy’s niche communities are kind of dead, because it’s not really big enough to sustain them yet. Lemmit at least provides a bridge so I can see the ones stranded on Reddit.
It’s an instance that automatically reposts every post made in certain Reddit subs.
I don’t like it, and blocked the entire instance because I don’t like the whole automatic repost thing, especially when the OP probably won’t even see any responses
Yep, those are all on Lemmit communities - foo@lemmit.online.
If you often look at all communities your instance happens to federate with sorted by new, you will get tons from whatever happens to be active, and Reddit is very active. I suggest looking at just what you subscribe to, instead, or sorting by something like scaled.
Well that’s another issue, yes. I don’t really have hard data, but anecdotally it doesn’t seem like an issue. I, at least, use Lemmy for whatever Lemmy can do. I’m on here because I like to comment and participate, and Lemmit will always be inferior at that.
Yes but as someone who likes to comment and participate, you can probably surmise that your enjoyment might be increased if there is more people commenting and participating.
For new users who have no idea what Lemmy is and how it might differ from Reddit, I think it’s a fairly safe assumption that posts from lemmit are literally referring those users back to reddit.
The lack of hard data is not a good reason not to defederate from lemmit. When weighing most decisions in life we do not have hard data. We do not have hard data supporting the use of bots from lemmit.
Yes but as someone who likes to comment and participate, you can probably surmise that your enjoyment might be increased if there is more people commenting and participating.
Yep, and at that point we’re talking about a dynamical system. It will grow if it becomes appealing to more than one user per user added. It will have to do so for several years at least before something like r/okaybuddyphd can self-sustain. Until then…
The lack of hard data is not a good reason not to defederate from lemmit.
Or a good reason to do so. I default back to theory and anecdote, then, and this is where I arrive.
Lemmit.
Yeah, you can downvote if you want. The point being that Lemmy’s niche communities are kind of dead, because it’s not really big enough to sustain them yet. Lemmit at least provides a bridge so I can see the ones stranded on Reddit.
what’s that
It’s an instance that automatically reposts every post made in certain Reddit subs.
I don’t like it, and blocked the entire instance because I don’t like the whole automatic repost thing, especially when the OP probably won’t even see any responses
It doesn’t post outside of itself, as far as I’m aware, so that was probably redundant.
Probably, but it covers me in the future if they ever add another bot to it
A special instance that mirrors Reddit subs. Just the posts, unfortunately, because I guess all the comments would be harder to scrape.
For the uninitiated… these are the idiots that spam lemmy with posts from reddit.
They claim to be “helping”, but any idiot can see that it just stifles engagement and community growth here on lemmy.
We don’t need bots posting spam, we need people building communities. The former is not helping the latter.
You could just not subscribe. AFAIK it’s all internal to the instance.
WDYM?
https://discuss.tchncs.de/?dataType=Post&sort=New
The new feed is littered with this trash.
Yep, those are all on Lemmit communities - foo@lemmit.online.
If you often look at all communities your instance happens to federate with sorted by new, you will get tons from whatever happens to be active, and Reddit is very active. I suggest looking at just what you subscribe to, instead, or sorting by something like scaled.
That’s not a solution though.
We can all curate our own feeds - that’s not the problem.
The problem is that these bots are discouraging the growth of communities here on Lemmy.
Well that’s another issue, yes. I don’t really have hard data, but anecdotally it doesn’t seem like an issue. I, at least, use Lemmy for whatever Lemmy can do. I’m on here because I like to comment and participate, and Lemmit will always be inferior at that.
Yes but as someone who likes to comment and participate, you can probably surmise that your enjoyment might be increased if there is more people commenting and participating.
For new users who have no idea what Lemmy is and how it might differ from Reddit, I think it’s a fairly safe assumption that posts from lemmit are literally referring those users back to reddit.
The lack of hard data is not a good reason not to defederate from lemmit. When weighing most decisions in life we do not have hard data. We do not have hard data supporting the use of bots from lemmit.
Yep, and at that point we’re talking about a dynamical system. It will grow if it becomes appealing to more than one user per user added. It will have to do so for several years at least before something like r/okaybuddyphd can self-sustain. Until then…
Or a good reason to do so. I default back to theory and anecdote, then, and this is where I arrive.