From what I can gather, a bot creates communities based on subreddits recommended to them by users, then fills said communities with posts from Reddit. I don’t really get the point of this, as 90% of posts it seems are just copied from Reddit but without any of the actual engagement, as the OP didn’t post it and no one is commenting. It just seems like clutter and a waste of space, but it’s also all over my feed. Anyone else confused?

  • @Frexican21OPEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Yeah, that’s what I ended up doing, but

    Lemmy comments still work though, so engagement is possible, just doesn’t really seem to be happening

    This is what I don’t understand. Since the posts come from Reddit and you can’t actually talk to the OP, the Lemmy community just ends up not taking off. Even if someone does post it might get buried under all the rest of the posts