I feel like it just creates a potemkin village where we have communities filled with content that nobody interacts with or cares about.
All I want is an nsfw scraping bot. Only reason I still open Reddit. Lemmy’s NSFW content is lacking
All the other bots that I see from lemm.it are useless imo
Scraping bots make lemmy seem like a cheap repost bothouse. I am here for actual human conversations!
The only way that I think scraping bots are helpful would be for purely archivale purposes. I wish someone would create an Instance that scrapes old Reddit posts and information and posts that information solely on that instance. Scraping new content and posting it here to Lemmy is not even using Lemmy, we’ve just gone back to Reddit at that point.
Many of them just link back to reddit, no idea what’s useful about that
as long as the amount of scraping is very limited, e.g. copying the top 3 posts of a subreddit daily, it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal 🤔
