I see bot accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, indeed! The bot is taking posts from .ml and re-homing them in different instances. So I guess now I understand the argument (but not accepting the conclusion) from @givesomefucks@lemmy.world.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If they would just cross-post like a normal person I would take much less of an issue with it.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Funnily, I don't like how cross-posts are presented in Lemmy's UI. But I see why straight reposts would be poorly received.

I for one would like to have a "community following community" system, where moderators could subscribe to one community and then let the community actor send a post while keeping the original author. It would basically kill the need of what these bots are doing and it would keep attribution to the original poster.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

There is no cross-posting like a normal person. Cross posts are formatted differently from interface to interface and app to app.

Some include a link in the body, others don’t. Nearly all software includes a way to see they’re related posts without needing it.

And if a user is trying to direct users away from an instance, I can’t see why they would want to link back to it.