The sentiment is ‘fuck reddit’. putting up a bot to bring that shithole closer to tihe fediverse will result in a change of sentiment to ‘fuck this bot.’
If you like reddit that is your choice. Go there as well. but don’t try to force that onto people who came here to get away from there just so you have one less click.
Almost everyone here could create a local bot that just scrapes URLs and dumps them here from anywhere. We don’t because the people here, by and large, still place intrinsic value on things shared by a human.
To me - This is not a dumping ground for random links. It is a place where PEOPLE saw something interesting and shared it themselves.
The sentiment is ‘fuck reddit’. putting up a bot to bring that shithole closer to tihe fediverse will result in a change of sentiment to ‘fuck this bot.’
If you like reddit that is your choice. Go there as well. but don’t try to force that onto people who came here to get away from there just so you have one less click.
Fuck reddit. I don’t like reddit. How are the links magically evil if they were crossposted? The functionality is the same
Almost everyone here could create a local bot that just scrapes URLs and dumps them here from anywhere. We don’t because the people here, by and large, still place intrinsic value on things shared by a human.
To me - This is not a dumping ground for random links. It is a place where PEOPLE saw something interesting and shared it themselves.