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What is the point of having a bot parrot everything that's posted on Reddit? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Seigest@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I noticed there's a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?

I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

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[–] Lubricate7931 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems fine to me. The news ones I'm subsrcibed to means I don't actually miss anything that I found reddit was useful for

[–] Seigest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suppose it's a bit more sensible for news related subs. The reddits ines sre likley using bots to find the news and post it, though such bots may not exist for lemmy yet and its just easier to scrape from reddit.

But then I see somthing like the ask reddit sub on Lemmy. It's just all of the questions none of the answers and no engagement at all. Some of the content is years old.Why does that need to exist? I can understand the idea of a reddit archive but why use lemmy for it?

I'm also wondering about the ethicacy of it. I'm annoyed at Reddit for not allowing me to delete my old content. There's a lot of folks threating legal action and such over reddit denying people the right to remove that content. Now we are copying that content. I assume without consent of those who'd posted it, and adding it to our own platform.

Though perfectly legal, is that really a good idea? Is that what we as lemmy users actually want? does this actually improve the platform?

[–] Lubricate7931 1 points 1 year ago

I do know what you mean and agree in those cases. Some of it is effectively spam. Probably created as a middle finger to reddit rather than desperately wanting to contribute something on lemmy

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