…posted by RSS Bot with no sense of irony whatsoever (because it has none) lol
(this is not a defence of reddit, that’s been going on for years, I just find this post hilarious)
Funny situation or not (I agree, it’s funny), that’s a great comparison because this bot does right what most Reddit bots do wrong:
- It’s properly marked as a bot.
- It’s not avoiding detection.
- It’s doing a specific job.
- It’s not trying to convince you of something.
- It’s not intrusive or disrupting user activity.
The RSS bot is entirely open that it’s a bot, though. Lemmy is still pretty small and so can make use of the bot. Their use on Reddit is vastly different in a way that’s problematic because 1) there are absolutely more than enough real Reddit users to post as much content as you could possibly want, so you crowd out real people instead of “filling in the gaps”, 2) the bot content is often reposts or AI slop, 3) they’re intentionally trying to blend in, and 4) they stand to gain a useful currency in the form of karma that Lemmy simply doesn’t have.
Still funny, though.
you’re probably a good 5 to 10 years late on that.
This shouldn’t be surprising for Lemmy users. Nor why it happened (enshittification).
