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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.