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I'm curious if anyone here actually finds value in the reddit posts brought over by lemmit.online, since I'd like to defederate from it otherwise.

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they're going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it. TBH I forgot it existed until Tesseract showed me its posts again.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've gone ahead and defederated since it didn't seem like anyone was in favor, thanks for the feedback.

If you really miss it, let me know and we can reconsider.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The reddit posts are absolutely useless without the comments.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Exactly, and that is one reason why Sopuli defederated from that instance. Having things posted straight to Lemmy would be better instead of clumsy crossposting from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s good for the nsfw subs since the comments didn’t much matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Speak for yourself. I love reading horny comments and laughing at them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I agree with this Idea as it makes it harder to find legitimate posts in the all feed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

finds value in the reddit posts

Nope, maybe last year during the api debacle you could argue that it had some value, but since then and now the content itself on reddit is just getting shitty exponentially, browsing reddit literally feels like the dead internet to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The few subs I still go to are very clearly overrun by AI posts and comments.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, seems kinda useless to me and I can see how it could be harmful to Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

As soon as I tried tesseract while anon, I was overwhelmed by the garbage post. Turns out I blocked it long ago on my account.

I'm all for defed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Recent versions of Lemmy include a admin API function to mark communities as hidden, thus making them disappear from the all feed but people can still subscribe to them afaik. That is a possible alternative to outright banning the bot in case there are some people interested (it seems to be mostly NSFW subscriptions though).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

The bot has so many posts that it's profile page took longer than 30s for me to load, and I had to go adjust our timeouts to get it to finish. It's just going to get worse at the volume that it's posting, I'd rather just not deal with that particular scaling problem yet =)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I've had the instance blocked for a while now for more or less that reason, I'm not upset about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I de-federated from it on 3 of my servers for all the reasons stated here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I've blocked that instance myself. I wouldn't miss it, if all Lemmy servers defed it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't miss it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nope, I blocked and forgot about it too. Defed away!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It really should bring over top posts only, that aren't questions