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  • Zamboniman@lemmy.caOPM
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    1 year ago

    As a long time poster on r/printSF, I’d rather not see the cross post bot at all. Let’s just let this community grow organically. Those of us still willing to discuss on Reddit can discuss there as well.

    I scrolled through the posts looking for things made by local users. There’s one post by Ben Bova, and the rest are the bot. If I’m looking for discussion with people here, I effectively have to blocm the bot.

    Thanks for the feedback. From the comments received so far, your vote brings it a bit closer to 50/50 (it was very strongly pro bot for the first bit). Your timing is apropos, as the bot will be taking a bit of a planned vacation regardless in a few days and we’ll see where things go from there. I too want to see the community grow by itself, and for people to bring and discuss content here. Obviously, the bot was to bring over some content into an essentially empty community to begin with to begin to spur discussion. And while there was some discussion happening on some of the posts, it was very little. But it was intended as a temporary measure regardless. We’ll see how it goes over the next two or three weeks.

    Side note: I didn’t know you existed until today. I’ve also set up !futurism@lemmy.ca and !spacemusic@lemmy.ca. I suspect our prospective communities will overlap once further established. I’ll link here from the sidebars of those communities to help a bit.

    That’s great. I will add those communities to the sidebar here as well. Thanks!

    • Troy@lemmy.caM
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      1 year ago

      Excellent! I’m sure we’ll see more of each other, haha. Go Jets Go ;)