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Do people think the reddit scraping bots are useful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _jonatan_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.

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[–] SPOOSER@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

The only way that I think scraping bots are helpful would be for purely archivale purposes. I wish someone would create an Instance that scrapes old Reddit posts and information and posts that information solely on that instance. Scraping new content and posting it here to Lemmy is not even using Lemmy, we've just gone back to Reddit at that point.