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.
I used to use a bot in one of my communities to help me out. Turns out it spammed way too much. Once I got feedback from the community I turned it off. I now have sources fed to me privately via RSS and then filter content based on what I think the community will enjoy and post it manually. Is it harder? Yes. But the community has more engagement, comments more, and votes positively more often since I started doing it this way. I also gain consistent new subscribers daily. I also have control over the "nozzle" so if multiple stories are worth posting but there are too many, I can sideline some for when the news slows down and post them later.
This is exactly how bots should be used on the platform. Unleashing a firehose of bot-post content drowns out user activity - using a bot to source filtered content that's actually interesting and valuable? I'm all for that.
There's something I've noticed about Lemmy, mind you I don't use any apps or whatever, just through the browser on PC, but, this one thing makes the platform feel so hollow and annoying.
Scrolling through whatever feed. All Active or whatever. You're on page 2. You see an interesting title. You click on it to read the post and comments. You click back. You're now on page 1 of the feed again. So it feels like Lemmy is really trying to be about 30 posts deep at any given time.
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.
IF ITS TOO QUIET MAYBE WE SHOULD TYPE LOUDER?
Mechanical keyboard users unite!
My Cherry Blues: I'M DOING MY PART
My cherry blues sat in the closet: Sad clicky sounds…
(It was described to me as a storm of angry nerds after someone insulted Arch btw. I run linears now.)
!mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml
https://lemmy.ml/c/mechanicalkeyboards
𝖄𝕰𝕾! 𝕷𝕰𝕿'𝕾 𝕿𝖄𝕻𝕰 𝕷𝕺𝖀𝕯𝕰𝕽!
This thread is for regular typing, not yer fancy typing.
I CAN'T HEAR YOU
BUTTLICKER! OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!!
You never yell at the client!
I prefer to type softly, but carry a big stick, to beat people with.
Mechanical keyboard gang rise up!
I used to use a bot in one of my communities to help me out. Turns out it spammed way too much. Once I got feedback from the community I turned it off. I now have sources fed to me privately via RSS and then filter content based on what I think the community will enjoy and post it manually. Is it harder? Yes. But the community has more engagement, comments more, and votes positively more often since I started doing it this way. I also gain consistent new subscribers daily. I also have control over the "nozzle" so if multiple stories are worth posting but there are too many, I can sideline some for when the news slows down and post them later.
This is exactly how bots should be used on the platform. Unleashing a firehose of bot-post content drowns out user activity - using a bot to source filtered content that's actually interesting and valuable? I'm all for that.
There's something I've noticed about Lemmy, mind you I don't use any apps or whatever, just through the browser on PC, but, this one thing makes the platform feel so hollow and annoying.
Scrolling through whatever feed. All Active or whatever. You're on page 2. You see an interesting title. You click on it to read the post and comments. You click back. You're now on page 1 of the feed again. So it feels like Lemmy is really trying to be about 30 posts deep at any given time.