The underlying problem is that Lemmy only offers Subscribed vs. All, and the former starts off entirely empty while the latter is… EVERYTHING.
PieFed solves this by a wizard that guides a new user to pick what their interests are and thereby subscribes them to many communities based on those. On top of that, Categories of Communities allow seeing any content that you choose - e.g. if 9/10ths of the time you want to avoid politics so you subscribe to none, but then that 1/10th you actually do want it… it’s there for you. Instantly. And then goes away again just as quickly.
Some Lemmy apps do this as well - I don’t know which ones - but base Lemmy does not.
So anyway, it’s a UI/UX issue, but fundamentally a bot that at least is properly labeled as such is friendly enough, especially in comparison to all other media platforms where they masquerade as real people to pretend like there’s more engagement than there actually is, and thereby boost advertising income.
The underlying problem is that Lemmy only offers Subscribed vs. All, and the former starts off entirely empty while the latter is… EVERYTHING.
PieFed solves this by a wizard that guides a new user to pick what their interests are and thereby subscribes them to many communities based on those. On top of that, Categories of Communities allow seeing any content that you choose - e.g. if 9/10ths of the time you want to avoid politics so you subscribe to none, but then that 1/10th you actually do want it… it’s there for you. Instantly. And then goes away again just as quickly.
Some Lemmy apps do this as well - I don’t know which ones - but base Lemmy does not.
So anyway, it’s a UI/UX issue, but fundamentally a bot that at least is properly labeled as such is friendly enough, especially in comparison to all other media platforms where they masquerade as real people to pretend like there’s more engagement than there actually is, and thereby boost advertising income.