So, I get that someone is trying to populate this community with posts using the lemmit.online bot. And that the vast majority of us are coming from Reddit. And that AITA is a staple community that we’re used to seeing in our feeds.

However, it seems like that just copying content into an otherwise empty community is just feeding a sterile wasteland. There is almost no engagement on the copied posts, and worse: I think it will smother any actual new content that gets posted in this wasteland of copied content. (I stand corrected, after trying to post this there I found out that only mods have priveleges to post. It’s worse than I thought, and I’ll probably just block it from my feed if it’s only a Reddit echo chamber)

What do you think, AITA?

  • Klicnik@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    You are not the asshole. The purpose of that community is to have communication with humans. When a bot posts a question there, there is no reason to respond. It’s not a human asking, and the human that originally asked in another forum will never see the response. I blocked that spammy bot, and have enjoyed my feed way better since.

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same here. The lemmit bot was blocked as soon as I saw it. If people want Reddit content, they need to suck it up and go to Reddit.

  • croobat@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    NTA, that shouldn’t rob your sleep tho, it’s something that will happen, and kind of inevitable once reaching critical mass.

    Despite that, I think there is nothing wrong with wanting to migrate useful content from dedicated communities into a safer, better platform. If you think about it, that content was never Reddit’s, It was from the community, for the community.

    People reposting low effort content and memes for engagement kinda suck tho.

  • Alkider@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    what’s the point of copying over stuff from reddit here? If anything, why not make a separate community for that? If it’s to archive it would be better to put it elsewhere dedicated to that.

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    There’s literally no one tell they’re the ass hole.

    I don’t think any of those people are real anyway so whatever.

    I blocked the lemmit bot a week or so ago. Smooth sailing (:

  • notfromhere@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    I block every community that bot posts in. I don’t want to see endless posts with zero discussion or engagement from anyone. It’s just noise to me.

    • jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The lack of discussion isn’t because it’s a bot post though, nine times outta ten. I’m all for more content as long as it isn’t obvious spam. The more content for me to interact with the better

      • notfromhere@lemmy.one
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        2 years ago

        As a mobile app user, I haven’t figured out how to do that yet. Memmy has the option but I don’t know if it actually works.

        • Fortychops@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          Go to the site on web browser and block it there. It won’t show up on your app afterwards

          • notfromhere@lemmy.one
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            2 years ago

            Thanks for the tip! I found an app (wefwef) to literally replace my habits from the Good Place and haven’t bothered to actually learn much about this place yet.

            • Fortychops@lemm.ee
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              2 years ago

              Yeah I started out with wefwef, it’s really good. I’ve switched over to Memmy now as I find it better replicates my Apollo experience on iOS, but a solid +1 for wefwef

              • notfromhere@lemmy.one
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                2 years ago

                Yea i keep going between memmy and wefwef, haven’t looked at mlem in a while. Wefwef has some weird performance glitches and memmy keeps getting better so may have to make memmy my main again, we’ll see!

  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    A bit off-topic, but AITA is a community I don’t mind if it stays on Reddit.

    It’s either fake stories, people looking for approval, people who don’t mind their own lives, or arm-chair psychologists taking guesses.

    • throwsbooks@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Ugh you’re right. I admit I’ve scrolled through AITA more often than I should, because something about it is really entertaining.

      But it’s like junk food, I don’t really feel good when I’m done with it. More vindictive, like those revenge subs. Being off Reddit has reduced how much I see it, and I don’t particularly want to go back to that.

      • moup@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        “AITA for not going to my son’s wedding rehersal?..…”

        “….because I have a major surgery that day and I will die if I don’t get the surgery”

        “AITA for calling my wife a whore in bed?”

        “…she told me its her kink”

  • CrunchyBoy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I think a better idea to populate this page with content AND encourage discussion would be a “Best Of” style community. Don’t just blindly copy everything over, but curate the best and encourage discussion around those.

    Of course that would take work and I’m not doing that.

    • charles@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      A “BestOfAmITheAsshole” community sound like the right answer here. It also needs a lot of context from the comments to make it worthwhile, much like the BestOfRedditUpdates sub. And like you said, that’s a lot of work that won’t be easy to do with just a bot. Maybe someone can figure out a way to do it with chatgpt web.

  • klemptor@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    NTA. I agree this is obnoxious and counterproductive. If there’s an actual need for an AITA comm on lemmy then it should be able to grow organically.

  • babetoduarte@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I just switched to Lemmy yesterday, and I tried finding most of the communities I followed on reddit here. Since then, I’ve slowly realized that some of these communities rely on this automated bot that just dumps reddit content there.

    I can appreciate the effort of populating these communities, but I found it irritating most of the time, since this is content that I can not genuinely interact with, only consume.

    So, I don’t think you’re at fault here.

    • Aer@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      AITA quality went down hill because they removed the no-validation rule.

      What you got was poor-faithed questions of people looking for validation about a situation where they clearly weren’t going to be the asshole.

      Then as it grew in popularity appealing to the general populace it encouraged people to use it for the purpose of farming karma. They would post low effort, baits. You would get astroturfing or people subtly posting their fetishes.

      The only community I miss is AmITheAngel where people just laughed at some of the more extreme examples of the above mentioned problems.

  • nitefox@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    No. I see a lot of reposts in here, even with meme templates 13 years old, and I’d rather not see them at all

    • everythingsucks@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, a lot of these posts are like a “best of” from Reddit. If I wanted to see bots repost top posts from reddit, I would have stayed on Reddit.

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    NTA.

    AITA is not about sharting funny content and then asking “am I an asshole or what”, it’s a way for the OP to invite (hopefully) honest and civilized discussion and criticism about their actions, without risking verbal abuse or being downvoted to hell. When a bot reposts an existing question without the OP’s knowledge, it loses the line of communication between OP and the community and the entire point of an AITA post. Populating the fediverse with content is important, but compromising the entire reason that content exists is not the way to build a community.

    edit: sharing, not sharting. I’m not changing it because funny.