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It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Paulius@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

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[-] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee 237 points 1 year ago

Impressive, I guess, but how many of those 2 million posts have a single comment? If 90% of these are just bots reposting things from Reddit with no further engagement…

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 260 points 1 year ago

The content will bring in users. I try to comment on interesting topics to help drive engagement.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if the content is organic. Look at !photoshopbattles@lemmy.world . Full of bot posts from reddit with 0 comments. Even if one of them gets a comment, it would get drowned out by the subsequent bot posts. Blindly filling a community with bot posts would eventually make people unsub from it.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure those bots are well intended, but I would rather not see bots just copying posts from reddit blindly. When you sort all by new, it's just a swamp of bot posts.

Edit: So I checked to verify my claim and most are from @bot@lemmit.online iirc and you can just block that account to stop seeing all the automated posts from reddit