• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.

    I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.

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      2 years ago

      Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.

      I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.