Fedigrow

We saw lots of this during the big Reddit migration a year ago. Personally I'm not a fan at all - I feel like it just floods mostly empty communities with posts that get barely any interaction. Any posts made by actual people get lost in the flood.

If I open a community and I see a handful of posts from people over the past few weeks, I might check them out, comment, maybe subscribe and contribute something. If I see a page of posts from a bot, mostly with no comments, I lose interest. And that was definitely something I ran into while first exploring Lemmy a year ago.

I'm not 100% against all bots - for example, something making daily posts might not be so bad.

The general consensus is that people prefer scarce content posted by a human than regular content posted by a bot.

Fandoms such as Archer would probably need a few people to get some traction.

I'm the only poster on [email protected], I expect an Archer community to be the same.

I hate those communities that spam Reddit reposts. If I comment on them, there's no engagement. The actual OP isn't going to see my comment.

The problem is this dilutes the comments.

If you have 2 posts and one of them has a comment, people might see that comment and join in on the conversation, also the human OP gets a notification about the comment and is likely to reply. What Lemmy needs is more comments not more posts.

But with bot posts you have 1000 posts and maybe 1 of them has a comment but no one will ever see it, people will see the community has lots of posts but no comments and that isn't interesting, it's just a glorified RSS feed at that point.

Communities are supposed to be comprised of people not bots. The Google definition of "community":

a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

There are a few communities with auto content bots.

There's more content, but look at the way Reddit communities interact with that content.

Mostly just a mob saying the clever comment a commenter is expected to post that 100 other people have already commented.

I'm much more comfortable with Lemmy growing into itself organically than trying to turn it into something like Reddit.

I do also like that there was a subreddit for everything, so I started a community here for animorphs, and I'll probably start other niche communities.

I think building what you want to see here is key.

What you are proposing is basically half of what I've done with fediverser and https://alien.top. The bots reposting content were regarded by the majority (or by the loud minority) as "not a good idea".

Re: community for Archer and/or any community you think is missing. Please sign up to https://fediverser.network and open a community request. I am automating the process of community creation and I will use the requests from there as the starting point.

Sounds like something @[email protected] might be interested in...

Leveraging bots is an idea which holds a lot of promise, though it must be treated with care so it can support human interaction and not replace it.