Just stop - posted by u/IcedRaktajino
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I've been here since the API exodus in 2023 and have seen it enough times to know that it's typically someone coming in new from reddit, seeing that the feed of new stuff here has an endpoint and recharges slower, so they want to make a repost bot so there's more content. They'll never actually read that content, but they just want it so they have something to mindlessly scroll past. I don't think they're going for popularity contest, at least not primarily, anyway.
Giving them the benefit of doubt, I think they're just highly misguided.
I could totally be wrong. This is just based on my observations and the occasional post in c/Fediverse when some new user talks about how it feels inactive here and suggests reposting crap from Reddit. I also try to go with the most charitable explanation for behavior I see.
Huh. I can’t imagine being so desperate to scroll that you have to spam yourself.
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Huh. I can’t imagine being so desperate to scroll that you have to spam yourself.
Guess that just illustrates that social media addiction is a real problem. I've never found myself in that position, but every once in a while I'm reminded that it exists.
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Beyond ridiculous.
I block repost bots as a matter of principle, If I wanted to see the trash that's on reddit I would just go to reddit.
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Technically speaking, yeah.
But the instances that run on donations are more likely to get donations to cover the growing hosting costs from a 100x increase in real users as opposed to one bot spammer spewing out 100+ user's worth of content each month. Ideally, that 100x increase won't be concentrated on a single instance and will be spread out among many instances.
While the amount of content from such an increase would be the same, the posting patterns are more organic from real users compared to the indiscriminate torrent coming from people running bots to repost everything from Reddit. That allows for a lot more granular management of resources.
But won't you need to fetch the content that's posted on other instance in the end, even if distributed?
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But won't you need to fetch the content that's posted on other instance in the end, even if distributed?
Yes
While the amount of content from such an increase would be the same, the posting patterns are more organic from real users compared to the indiscriminate torrent coming from people running bots to repost everything from Reddit. That allows for a lot more granular management of resources.
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I'm new, why is this bad? I've seen quite a few complaints about the lack of content here already
A ton of stuff on reddit is by ai bots. A lot of people here are trying to get away from reddit for various reasons, one of those is how fake it has become.
We want real people, real discussions, the individual not the forced algorithmic nonsense that reddit has come.
Like why be another reddit when reddit is no good anymore.
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