The biggest issue with Lemmy right now are the repost bots/communities.
Why would a Reddit user who is comfortable with the current state of Reddit move to Lemmy if the content is mostly the same, but with a big part of posts just being reposts with zero comments or interactions?
They won’t.
Get rid of the repost bots, they are just cluttering up Lemmy and preventing original content from being seen.
The biggest issue with Lemmy right now are the repost bots/communities.
Why would a Reddit user who is comfortable with the current state of Reddit move to Lemmy if the content is mostly the same, but with a big part of posts just being reposts with zero comments or interactions?
They won’t.
Get rid of the repost bots, they are just cluttering up Lemmy and preventing original content from being seen.
The bots were needed in the past, but no longer.
How does a person identify a bot?
look at [email protected]
There are plenty of other instance specific bots that make it obvious that they are bots.