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Be wary of spammy reposting bots
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If that's the case, they should, at the very least, mark themselves as a bot account. And even then, it's not really organic posting of articles. The bot didn't say "hey, I really like the content of this article, so I'm going to re-post it on Lemmy". I tend to post a lot of YouTube videos because I watched the video, liked the video, and thought others should watch it.
Not all of Reddit, Shitter, or YouTube needs to be re-posted on Lemmy.
Yeah, I think repost bots are fine for certain use cases, but they should 100% be identified as bots, and not pretend to be a human account.