What is the point of having a bot parrot everything that's posted on Reddit? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Seigest@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I noticed there's a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?

I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 27 points 1 year ago

The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

So, you're saying we need another bot to copy the comments too?

[-] Andreas@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

I'm working on that one! Fork of lemmit.online, so it doesn't need API access.

Don't worry about it spamming instances. This bot posts so much that it will be automatically blocked from any instance that uses the default Lemmy rate limits, so all bot deployments will have to run on an instance that is specifically for them.

Source code for the bot will be released on July 1st if Reddit doesn't introduce a breaking change on that day and if I don't receive a good argument as to why this bot will destroy the Fediverse.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

But why? We can't interact with it at all? It's like copy pasting a book.

[-] Andreas@feddit.dk 0 points 1 year ago

I don't use Reddit for the interaction, average Redditors are annoying to interact with. Reddit's value to me is the amount of information it contains. It's supposed to be like copy pasting a book that has DRM, so you can make use of the content without worrying that the book's copyright holder will use it to screw you over eventually.

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