• jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll never understand the antibot sentiment. Reddit was filled with bots reposting stuff all the time too. Who cares? Let the votes decide if it’s good or not

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      It can drown out contributions and questions from actual humans using the site. So while you can also have a useful discussion on a bot posted thread, ultimately someone has to create original content somewhere and people get discouraged if their original posts are lost in a flood of bot posts.

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        1 year ago

        I agree. I come here to interact with people online and read interesting discussions, not merely see content.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a link aggregation site though. Like the memes and stuff might be OC, but news articles and the like make total sense to be posted by bots IMO. The comments and engagement is what I’m here for. The more posts that trigger and allow for that engagement the better

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          1 year ago

          That is a bit contradictory. I think Lemmy is more like a forum. The OPs links are helpful to initiate engagement but if it is all superficial stuff pulled from external places by bots and not actual members posting their own ideas, the following discussion will also be very shallow.

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      One consideration is who controls the bot and decides what information it spreads.

      A corporation or government agency could use bots to have significant influence over decentralized social media

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        1 year ago

        For sure. But isn’t that what votes are for? As long as it’s not from obviously problematic sources I’m still not seeing a big issue here either.

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          Bots can post advertisements, disinformation etc. More likely their message will spread if they keep exposing people to it. And yeah, bot accounts can also vote