'Apple when has to pay… ’
👍 Engrish
Honestly, at this point, I’m not sure what you hope to achieve by these responses. Their account is marked as a bot, and for anyone who doesn’t want to see the reposts, the block button is just a click away. I, and I’m sure many others, don’t habitually go to reddit, so this is “new” content to us.
Obviously I’d much prefer if they added even a modicum of original thought to their posts, but the constant campaign of posting screen shots is equally wearing. I’ve seen your argument elsewhere that they’re ‘monopolising’ communities, but even if that were a meaningful metric, this isn’t the way to deal with it. Downvote them, certainly, but more people posting more content is the natural antidote. It doesn’t really matter that someone is reposting from elsewhere when there’s other content appearing too, and if there isn’t that other new content, even reposted content helps drive engagement in the community. Ultimately, if the mods of the community don’t want them posting, they can just block them from doing so, so it may be worth contacting them to register your dislike of this sort of content.
If you enjoy mindlessly upvoting content that a bot copied from reddit you could block me and upvote all content you want.
What is this? Do you hate any content that appeared on reddit? I thought we hate reddit as a platform because what it became, not automatically all the content that appears there.
So if I post my OC meme here, you like it, and then I also post it to reddit, then suddenly you hate it? Visit a psychologist because that ruins you more than me.
Our goal is to avoid reddit (not giving them any engagement, ad money, etc.). By having a bot that rips off best of reddit’s content, bringing it here - aren’t we fulfilling the goal? Suddenly I don’t have to go to reddit if I can get my daily dose of memes here. For all I care the meme itself could have originated from 4chan
I don’t think I’ve upvoted any of their posts, but there’s been some reasonable discussions under some of them. Would you be happier if they’d found the image somewhere else? I mean, all original content would be nice, but realistically most of it is going to come from somewhere else. I think what’s bothering me is that I only see you doing this under this one user, when there are multiple other users who also habitually repost, and it seems to have become something of a monomania. My apologies if I’ve missed some more widespread comments.
I won’t block you because, apart from this, I generally don’t mind your posts, and I remember that you used to post more positively and even humourously. I hope that we see more of that, the fediverse needs more positivity. Besides, your username makes me laugh every time I see it.
It pays the slaves in the Cobalt Mines?
It does not, it pays whatever Chinese or Korean company makes its battery cells, which pays whichever Chinese company refines the metals, which pays whichever Chinese company mines the minerals. China owns most of the battery industry and you don’t really get much of a say in what their labour practices are - but you COULD pay 2-3x as much to get a battery from a non-Chinese company, that may or may not have a better track record when it comes to slave labour and may or may not still use Chinese lithium and cobalt.
It then also pays a Taiwanese company to operate sweatshops in China, that the Chinese government is somehow OK with despite being “communist” and “for the workers”. It’s all ultracapitalism all the way down. Though I hear these days they don’t even need the suicide nets anymore.
