I have seen some people complaining about it, but I think its useful.

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    18 days ago

    I haven’t seen much from the rest of the instance, but I blocked the bot a while ago. It’s a bot that drives engagement to other sites by posting nothing but plain links. I don’t see how that’s supposed to be helpful or useful 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        18 days ago

        It’s not though, is it? You’re replying to a question post here, in a community for questions. A significant portion of Lemmy is communities for questions, media, memes, and tech conversations.

        Of the posts that share links, a decent number of those are either posted with a summary to encourage discussion, or are at least posted by a human that you can speak to. A headline and link to another site, posted by a bot, does nothing to encourage interaction with Lemmy. It’s literally a link that points to content somewhere else