Hello again, I see we're both annoyed by the same person still

Yep. I see this all over the new feed.

It's stupid just reposting 100% from another place. If I wanted that, I'd just go there.

A day ago he reposted a meme about a doctor raping a woman because her credit card was declined and she couldnt pay for care.

Thats VILE.

In addition to the slimy pretending that his posts are organic traffic by not just marking his account as a bot, he is also importing the culture of casual sexism from reddit to the threadiverse.

Thank you SMCF for calling them out so I can tag them and move on

Working on it!

The knights of new were what made reddit good, where are they

I hate all of them, but I hate the ones not marked as bots more than those that are marked.

The worst part is the lack of transparency and credit to the actual authors. Many of the reposts are personal to the OOP, and it feels extra scummy.

All of those posts are heavily upvoted and have multiple comments though? Accreditation, etc. are all valid critiques, but I genuinely don't understand why so many people care about the provenance of posts.

Personally I don't mind it too much, as long as

• there's no vote manipulation to artificially boost the post
• there are genuine interactions in the comments
• the account posting this is properly labelled as a bot account (if it's an actual bot)

So I'm not looking for a fight, but can we have a friendly talk about the value of repost bots in the context of this medium? I just feel like yapping, so feel free to ignore if no.

Lemmy shares a format with Reddit - they're feed aggregators. Their value proposition is having everything in one place so a community can pass judgment on it all. That's why people hate reposts and bad faith actors, adverse or opaque sorting algorithms, and agenda-driven moderators - they directly devalue the medium. We tend to like original content, genuine sentiments and human connections, and relevant posts because those directly support the inherent value of a feed aggregator.

I'm not convinced either way about repost bots, yet. They're clearly not genuine or original, and too many of them will tend to obscure - you know what? I got there in the end I see it now.

I could still see the value in a carefully chosen, rate-limited bot that reposts with the blessing of the moderators, but the rate and curation are important, and the rate has to take into account the number of other communities using them versus the number of active users, so it's not trivial to decide what the right amount would be.

Does blocking not work? I'm not the biggest fan of repost bots myself, but they exist for a specific purpose. There are times when you have to take efforts to curate your own experience, also.

enshittification is 100% complete

Can't wait for this to be reposted by the bots.

Slop in, slop out.

This AI thing might turn people off the Internet???

I'd love a lemmy client that next to a username, it gives their post to comment ratio. That tends to give me a solid feel. If they don't comment on their own posts ever, then they are not here to discuss.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

And then they get mirrored to fediverse via bots...

People should have left reddit months ago

This is why we can block things