Lemmy NSFW

Categorically no. The point of lemmy isn't to be a content farm. It's to be a community where people respect each other. How can you respect anything or anyone while stealing content?

In fact I would go the other way and start banning people that are posting content they don't explicitly have permission to post. In this day and age where more people are seeking to monetize sharing nudes, we need to protect the few free content creators we have left, whether on this platform or the former one.

Fuck people and bots that steal nudes.

from a 'get as much content as possible' angle bots are good but i think there's a big risk of them drowning out actual posters which really takes away a lot of the fun of posting and making it feel like an archive rather than an active community.

I think we should not have them or else Lemmy will only be known as the platform that copies from others. Also there could be legal issues when the platform the content is copied from has an ill-minded CEO who wants to shutdown others.

On grounds of NSFW communities, we have to get the bots. People don't come to this page to look at 14 posts on each board. They come to them for the same reason they come to the reddit versions of these subs.

Aren't we trying to compete here? Aren't we trying to show the refugees a good time? We ought bot.

Thanks for the notification of this post @yay@lemmynsfw.com.

I have created a script that would take the top (user-selectable) 0-1000 posts of a subreddit and post them to a Lemmy community. My plan was then to implement a vote threshold so that posts older than 48 hours and above a user-defined karma limit would be pulled in each time it was run - however the account login no longer works so I assume it and its posts were purged, so I'm here instead!

I do think that in order to get people engaged, we need content to draw them in. I noticed that once I'd posted 50 items across I immediately started getting subscribers to the community.

What I don't think is right is using bots to just replicate all the content on Reddit. As a moderator of several subs, a lot of content gets removed through moderation (hence the 48 hour limit), and a lot of junk gets through but just doesn't get upvoted (resulting in the karma threshold). Avoiding the "rubbish" would be good.

My view is that using bots/scripts to seed communities means we can kick start them into life much more quickly, and then when a critical mass of users is reached they become irrelevant and can be disabled. I don't think we're here to just copy and paste from Reddit - otherwise surely you'd just go there instead.

Edit: Just to comment on the poll itself. I don't think "bot only" communities make sense - we're not here to just copy Reddit... lemmit.online can do that. I believe we should allow bots to seed, and then let actual users take over. Unfortunately there isn't an explicit option for that so I just went with "Yes".

I would prefer it if bots only reposted approximately 10-40% of the content that receives the most votes.

If something like that should be allowed, I think it should be marked with a tag/flag/flair (if that's a thing on Lemmy) so that you can easily filter them out if you want to.

I think that would be super beneficial to help jumpstart this site. Maybe at some point communities can do it the other way around, so that the „main“ branch of the community is on lemmy and can port over the follower of reddit

I'm trying to make an account on this instance, been trying for days now but it never works, has anyone been able to create an account? It just forever spins after pressing sign up. I've tried on multiple devices and browsers, same deal.

I think it's scummy to rip off other peoples content so your site has more content. It also invites legal copyright issues. Strongly against.

Right now it's not even possible to let you guys know of a copyright violation. Like at least an email address... regardless of botted content you really should look out for that.

So long as it doesn't overload and weigh down the instance, communities should be allowed to allow migration bots.

That poll seems kind of biased to only have 1 NO, but 2 YESs. The yes votes are split.

Absolutely yes, of course.

I am voting a no, and have been blocking bots whenever I see them.

I understand trying to jumpstart communities, however I feel bots should be limited to 1 post every 6-12 hours if allowed at all. And honestly, I think bots reduce the quality of a community regardless, especially if you are basing it off metrics on Reddit, where the top posts in many subreddits aren't necessarily the the nicest pictures, just the ones with the most professional setup and money to burn on bots upvoting them for exposure.