So I purposed that for Lemmy and mastdon a bot that post links to YouTube videos and news articles relevant the city I live in, and I got push back on suggesting the idea. I suggesting this bot because my city isn’t big enough to pump out content everyday and the links would seed content for a Lemmy community so that its not empty.
I have looked into city subReddit and for my city links to news stories are basically non existent and big city like NYC news article links are rare, but do get engagement.
I have been told that link bots don’t help with empty communities and something about redundancy.
I do look at politics community and that’s nothing but links.
I’m asking for general perspective from both sides
The problem with using a bot to post vs posting things you find interesting is that the bot doesn’t match the level of interest. But because we have the option to hide bot accounts you can absolutely use bots to populate your community with content and those that dont like it can block the bot or have disabled bot accounts altogether.