I started working on a script that will take top post from subreddits to post then to corresponding c/ on lemmy with various accounts to give the impression of minimal activity.
The idea comes from a lemmy user etting saying they would never want to support reddit with lemmy content (or in general), and instead just taking the content from there and putting it on lemmy.
It feels like I’m just kinda sewing lemmy into the human centipede that is content filler. I can see why content does get reposted it’s entertaining and engaging and they propagate.
It does feel like a Pandora’s jar like I’m laying a foundation for a bot army even though I only plan to be small scale
Honestly adding spam to small communities only makes them worse, I like how on lemmy small communities are genuine and have a handful of real posters not bots spamming trash. We don’t need infinite content for every niche so you can scroll forever.
Having critical mass in niche communities (like Reddit does) is not important because of “endless scrolling”, but because without it the Fediverse will always be seen a second-option. If the 90/9/1 rule is to be taken seriously, this means that 90% of the people browsing Reddit would have no issue to go to a mirror to lurk. If then half of these 90% are getting their posts from a mirror, the content creators will quickly realize that their audience is moving on another platform and start posting there.