I’ve found that I am. I sometimes write a reply, see that it was posted by an RSS bot, and delete the draft. OP doesn’t exist so what’s the point?
I’ve found that I am. I sometimes write a reply, see that it was posted by an RSS bot, and delete the draft. OP doesn’t exist so what’s the point?
I really don’t understand the appeal of bots reposting other social media sites
People want RSS functions but are too incompetent to use RSS or the source doesn’t provide a feed. They do the best they can with what they know.
And the rest of us suffer due to their ignorance. It’s just how humans work.
I wonder what the breakdown of discussions started from users vs. bots is. While I can see your point especially from a spam pov, one purpose of this kind of bot is to pull from other sources and get a conversation going. If no one is interested, then it just falls to the bottom. I often see posts complaining that Lemmy/fediverse isn’t as active as Reddit was/is, and yet without some of this automation it would be far deader as people don’t tend to start posts as much as reply to existing one. If a particular bot/community is flooding your feed too much, that can be easily be blocked, or let the mods/admin know that it needs some adjustment.
I agree with most of what you said but it’s less about the spam to me and more of how it feels hollow and uncurated. A human didn’t read the article and feel like it was worth sharing, it just appears here
Yes, I understand that concern. If we had more people creating posts… I’m a hypocrite, I don’t have many posts myself.