Okay, I am starting to realize that most people are looking at the word “bot” and stop reading the rest of the description.
The point of fediverser is not about creating an army of bots or a fully automated content firehose. The point of fediverser is to have a tool that gives a way for humans to bring content that they want to have on the fediverse. The mirrored instance and the bot accounts are just a mechanism to (1) facilitate the curating process, (2) automate the posting of content that has been curated and (3) to keep a bridge with Reddit which can help redditors to signup to Lemmy in a frictionless-way.
All this work started because I spent almost 3 months bootstraping !emacs by doing the following:
checking /r/emacs.
Manually posting one or two links that I found there to the lemmy community
Realizing that the majority of content on the community is from “self posts” with questions
sending DMs to the authors of these self-posts, telling them about the community and inviting them to join my instance.
I’ve repeated multiple times in this thread and in the original announcement, but I can do it yet again: the main usage of fediverser is for people that do not want to use reddit but still are interested in interacting with niche communities.