I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.
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.