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?
Seems like a sociopathic trait. To try and get simulated attention for themselves. Nevertheless, it might work better for them the other way around. Using a smaller community on Lemmy as a ‘test’ environment and then plagiarizing a comment to get Reddit Karma. Or a post for that matter. I am pretty sure that there are people that might do this. There probably is a lot of mods on Lemmy that might tip off mods on Reddit for this very reason.
I will admit, if I need help for an answer to a question someone is asking, I DO Google and in those results there, which are often reddit, find someone who has already asked and answered said question, so I will just paraphrase them lol.
Not jokes but useful things and TOMT searches. Why reinvent the wheel?
because bikes with Reuleaux Triangles for wheels are fun?
I remember that one time Michael Stevens of Vsauce talks about different shaped wheels, lol.
“After all, we aren’t going to reinvent the wheel, or are we?” Lol