Reddit has so many bots, formulaic comments, and clear patterns (reposts, call-and-response, joke chains, & copypasta), that it seems useful to farm Lemmy for more unique comments performing well to steal.
I could see value of someone farming these comments because there’s far less of all that and people are actually creative much of the time. I don’t know if this would be more trouble than it’s worth, but got to wondering.
Is anyone doing this? Farming Lemmy for, especially, comments to post on Reddit to make themselves seem more authentic?
Do you know of this is plausible, or have you actually seen it happen?
Just to be very clear, I don’t want to do this. I abandoned all my other accounts during the Great Enshittification. But there are a few bot accounts that post a lot here, across several instances, focussing on reposting from Reddit and elsewhere. Is that what they’re trying to do?
If you want good karma with top comments that won’t be immediately called out as stolen from another Reddit thread, maybe, since some people have got wise to that? I dunno. I’m probably giving this more brain power than I should (eta because of all the reddit repost bots in my feed lately, probably.)
My impression is that karma matters less here. But I never used reddit much and I have never used Lemmy either, so I’m a bit of an anti-expert.
I think the bots are set up by people who simply wanted to see the content. I don’t think anyone is trying to farm anything here.
Ideally they should all be tagged as bots, which would make them less problematic.