Genuine question.
There are tons of niche subs on Reddit that aren’t on Lemmy or don’t have enough people posting. Lemmy could benefit from bots that automatically post Reddit content. Why is this not a thing?
This was a thing for a short time, most people on lemmy didn’t like it.
There are and I blocked them.
There’s literally tons of bots that post Reddit content on Lemmy. To the point that I get extremely annoyed at the vast number of them.
To say nothing all the people who scour Reddit for content to post here.
I know a couple. Didn’t know there are that many. Are they marked in some way to recognize they are bots?
If you want reddit content, go to reddit.
Most people including me don’t care about where the content is posted. I just want the content and a good app to view the content. This is the real reason why nobody is moving from Reddit to Lemmy eventhough Reddit sucks.
Besides, there is no such thing as “Reddit content” or “Lemmy content”. 99% of content posted on Lemmy isn’t original either. Articles, videos, news, etc. are all crossposted from somewhere else on the internet. Lemmy is a content aggregator and community forum, nothing more.
Reddit has more content. And arguably, more content that is actually important. It has this advantage over Lemmy because Reddit is older.
If bots can bring the important information over to Lemmy, then that will make Lemmy more valuable. None of the anti-bot users are lining up to manually do all that work themselves.
Why not just have bots post the comments too and there’d be no need for us?
Most Lemmy users are robophobic. They hate bots with a passion regardless of their function, so they likely blocked them or reported them or whatever, leading to the bots not being considered popular and many just being outright removed.
If I wanted to read the bullshit that happens on reddit now, then I wouldn’t have left to come here.
