can we like just not use bots to repost a bunch of stuff from reddit here?

https://lemmy.world/post/503878

can we like just not use bots to repost a bunch of stuff from reddit here? - Lemmy.world

Like I get it there’s less people so less content but come on, using bots to just repost shit from reddit? What are we, 9gag now?

Sorry but I don’t agree with this logic. Smaller communities are more susceptible to drought. Content is a water supply. I moderate a magazine for The Office (woo woo, shout out) and I bring in content from Reddit as often as I can. It’s a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.
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It litters people’s feeds with content devoid of interaction that there’s no point in interacting with. It funnels them back to Reddit. It is a mistake.

If you can get the content of a post and post it, that’s good. RSS bots are cool. If you can pull the image/link and title from reddit and post it you’ve got a good recipe. Right now I’m seeing a lot of lemmit and other bots just posting straight links to reddit posts, this is a counterproductive waste of time.