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We saw lots of this during the big Reddit migration a year ago. Personally I'm not a fan at all - I feel like it just floods mostly empty communities with posts that get barely any interaction. Any posts made by actual people get lost in the flood.
If I open a community and I see a handful of posts from people over the past few weeks, I might check them out, comment, maybe subscribe and contribute something. If I see a page of posts from a bot, mostly with no comments, I lose interest. And that was definitely something I ran into while first exploring Lemmy a year ago.
I'm not 100% against all bots - for example, something making daily posts might not be so bad.
This.
The bots can be helpful to grow an existing community with more content, but if they drown out legit users then you end up just hurting interaction.
Yes. I think to populate a community something reposting the top reddit post of the day, or maybe even just the week could be good. However more than that is too much.
I agree completely. I actually set it so I don't see posts from bots. Before that I was manually blocking them.
Im actually going to try enabling them again though, so I can check out the fediverser project. Maybe things will be different this time.