I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.
Scraping bots make lemmy seem like a cheap repost bothouse. I am here for actual human conversations!
The only way that I think scraping bots are helpful would be for purely archivale purposes. I wish someone would create an Instance that scrapes old Reddit posts and information and posts that information solely on that instance. Scraping new content and posting it here to Lemmy is not even using Lemmy, we’ve just gone back to Reddit at that point.
I’ve started to block anyone who I see just spamming mediocre articles into multiple communities.
I find them useless because you often lose the necessary title and post text that accompanied the image, plus you always lose the relevant discussion. This last bit is almost always the most engaging part of the post.
I suppose they could be useful in adult communities, or for memes and shitposting where titles and text are either redundant or useless.
All in all, I say we get rid of them.
Many of them just link back to reddit, no idea what’s useful about that
No, they are garbage. I block every single one I come across. Else Lemmy is nothing but an echo chamber.
There is a block bots setting in the user settings as well, although it may also block useful ones.
Hate 'em and immediately disabled the option to view bot posts
as long as the amount of scraping is very limited, e.g. copying the top 3 posts of a subreddit daily, it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal 🤔
I could arguably see sharing a few choice posts each day, but it seems like it’s always posts that have no votes or comments or interactions
All I want is an nsfw scraping bot. Only reason I still open Reddit. Lemmy’s NSFW content is lacking
All the other bots that I see from lemm.it are useless imo
