It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.

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    The main thing driving my enjoyment of Lemmy is the people and real responses. Having bots just copy and paste existing posts from Reddit with no human behind the post isn’t driving engagement. I haven’t seen a single reddit repost by a bot get a single comment or community interaction at all.

    I’m against it, it feels like a garbage in garbage out type of situation.

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      There’s a lemmy community I used to be subbed to with a mod that decided to grab every recent and new post from /r/ and repost here. No comments on 4 of 5 posts, and one or two on the remaining 1 of 5. New posts every 3 to 5 minutes. Many readers thought it was a bot, and on a meta post in the sub, a different mod said they aren’t a bot, they’re doing a great job, and we should block the mod.

      Did that and unsubbed. Now my “new” feed isn’t full of reposted, zero-engagement posts.