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Do people think the reddit scraping bots are useful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _jonatan_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

I was following a few just to keep up with what cool things people were making. I think I unfollowed them now because reddit posts more often than lemmy and these dominated my feed and I still had no one to talk to about the post.

this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023

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