Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee.
“Man rests from one labor by doing another.”
Just leeching content from reddit will never get Lemmy anywhere.
I recently leeched some interesting post material from Reddit, shamelessly reposted it here, and it seemed to get lots of appreciation and a healthy amount of commentary.
I wasn’t acting as a bot, but does it matter? Most of the content’s probably not original to Reddit, anyway. Maybe using a bot in conjunction with hand-picking interesting material is a good idea, y’know?
I don’t have strong feelings either way, but money does touch everything, overtly or not, when it comes to civilisation. Time spent volunteering on Fediverse projects is effectively money spent (at least to some degree), and instances cost time & fees to maintain.
But I guess to argue against myself-- you have to think that without some kind of ongoing responsible oversight, then the worst aspects of capitalism might predictably find a way to screw it all up if left to its own devices. Then again, maybe the scale involved makes that less likely. *shrug*
Agree. I’ve seen a couple chronic examples of that, recently.
A poster of content is also a ‘host’ to that content. If users comment, they have an opportunity to reply and upvote. A bot offers nothing.