Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.
Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn’t be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.
Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy’s option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.
A huge thing that real posts have but bot posts do not have: comments notify the OP and thus have a good chance of getting a response. The bot communities almost never get comments, and even if they do it’s extra rare for them to get a reply.
If I didn’t care about human-to-human comments then I wouldn’t be here or on Reddit, I would just use RSS feeds, or the Google news feed.