this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
273 points (74.2% liked)

Asklemmy

43940 readers
527 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Title

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eventually I can see getting rid of them, but for now they’re keeping Lemmy active.

Do a multitude of automated posts without comments and conversation really count as activity? Before I simply hid bot posts via settings, I'd rarely see any conversations appearing on Reddit reposts. Even now if you look at probably the most prolific bot instance/account behind this, Lemmit.online bot, you can see this for yourself.

Interesting archival project, I suppose, but it certainly doesn't seem to generate activity in terms of conversation, besides posts like this.

[–] scubbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do a multitude of automated posts without comments and conversation really count as activity?

Yes, absolutely. Posts are activity just as much as comments - arguably even more so, since Lemmy is not immune to Reddit's flaw of having a hundred comments saying essentially the same thing. Some subreddits have insightful comments that are worthwhile in-and-of themselves - but they are few and far between.