People want to see more happening here. The fediverse is not quite the ghost town it was a year ago, but it's still pretty quiet, especially once you start digging into hobbies.
Of course, the good solution is not bot-driven, but human-driven. But people are lazy and think that they'd rather repost thousands of posts with a bot than figure out what links they think are good and post those.
The great thing about lemmy, or the fediverse at large, is that people can have control and freedom over their social media platform. Block what you don't like and subscribe to what you do like. There's no single large entity deciding what everyone should see.
The bots exist because there are people that like them for whatever reason. Maybe there are niche communities that they want to keep up with, or career/school/local communities that they still want to read about without having to open up Reddit.
why do you suck?
It's fine asking why, but like I said above, people have the freedom to customize Lemmy to their liking. Let them do what they want and customize your experience for yourself.
I'm convinced that Reddit themselves are either behind those bots, or are deliberately looking the other way. Those bots posting and commenting make the site look more active than it actually is.
Everybody witness my amazing technical prowess and bot configuration skills. Repetitively.
Hah! I remember reddit
I don't have a problem with them if they're reposting a reasonable amount of content and aren't flooding. While Lemmy grows they help provide content for the platform and give it an activity boost.
If they're spamming 60 posts an hour? Yeah, fuck those, that's just noise. I block those fairly quickly.
