…it’ll still be 35 users/month

I’m not sure you are aware how irrelevant this is. This could mean as little as a single user opening the community page daily, or 30 different users accidentally navigating into the community page from the main page just because an article showed up in their feed.

To frame the absurdity of this argument, I moderate [email protected] , which in the past month registered also 30 users/month, and that community is also dead.

No, you’re lying by using a different definition of “dead”.

Now you’re being silly and acting defensively. I don’t need to do anything for the [email protected] group to be dead or remain dead, as it was expected to be. Anyone can take a look at it and see that if they filter out your personal inorganic traffic, which is already of dubious relevance, nothing remains.

You can stay up all night arguing otherwise, but it is what it is.

It’s ok if you feel that it’s your personal mission to generate traffic for a particular channel on a lemmy instance. Just don’t try to pretend it’s something that’s relevant for anyone beyond yourself.

None of the communities you have mentioned are dead. In fact according to the January stats, all the communities you mentioned have above average usage.

I’m sorry, you’re trying to blatantly lie with statistics.

“Above average” means nothing if the majority of communities is already dead. You’re just arguing that some communities are more dead, which is pointless.

You’re also lying regarding what traffic is being posted to [email protected]. All posts ranging back to the last two weeks come from a single user account: https://programming.dev/u/SmartmanApps .

To make this even more pathetic, the bulk of the posts going into [email protected] were posted by your account after I pointed out the community was dead and already dead on arrival.

You’re not refuting the point: you’re proving the point that the community is dead.

I mod the MAUI Community, which was created shortly before Xmas, and I made some announcements then (like on Mastodon, Daily Dew Drop, etc.) and some people joined then.

I’m late to the game but I should point out that the MAUI community is a textbook example of how communities should definitely not be created, and it was clear from the start that it was already born a dead community.

The C# barely gets a single post per week. The .NET community is even more of a niche community, and in spite of all the non-organic posts it’s already dead.

Even though you were fully aware of this and you were repeatedly pointed out the obvious fact that a niche of a niche won’t take off, you ignored te feedback and still went ahead with the creation of the community. Which is of course dead.

Lemmy in general and programming.dev in particular already have groups with traction. I hope that moving forward the group creation process is based on peeling specialized topics from existing communities. Otherwise the MAUI fiasco will repeat itself and we’ll end up with an even longer tail of dead communities vulnerable to spam and takeovers by bad actors.

Ive been paying attention which is why I dont see the communities youre talking about (especially after ive tweaked things).

You’re not paying any attention to what your bot is doing if you aren’t noticing where and what your bot is posting.

If you want it removed from c++ node and cloud I can do that (I assume you do considering what youve been saying so will remove the three communities from the bots sight)

That does not fix the problem you’re creating.

The problem is that your bot is dumping spam onto Lemmy, and apparently you don’t even realize how broken your bot is.

If I wanted to ban your bot from the communities I moderate, I would already have done so. That does not fix the problem though.

I don’t see how it’s reasonable to expect that your misjudgement in deploying a broken bot should be solved by forcing others to cleanup after you, or do extra maintenance work just to avoid the mess you’re creating.

In the very least, your bot should be opt-in, and it should directly cross-post stuff onto the communities that want a bot to generate traffic for them instead of annoying people.

Lastly, if you want additional evidence that your bot is broken by design, here’s the absurd suggestion it posted onto [email protected] triggered by a post with a Godot example.

Do you really believe you’re doing anyone any favor by suggesting to post a Godot C# sample to communities dedicated to the C programming language and .NET?

which communities?

If you’re paying any attention to what your bot is doing, you’ll be aware of which communities it’s triggering and what/how many messages it’s spamming them with.

Nevertheless, again: the problem with your bot is that it’s broken by design. If your goal is to cross-post submissions to related communities, instead of spamming discussions with requests your bot would be cross-posting submissions to related communities. If you did any semblance of requirements gathering, you would also notice that a basic feature of these bots is a) be opt-in, b) stop posting based on community feedback.

for node.js it seems like it was triggering (…)

The problem is not how the bot is triggered. The problem is that the bot is broken by design. Its main output is spamming Lemmy instances with posts that add no value at all.

I mean, haven’t you even noticed that in some communities your bot is posting more messages than the number of daily visitors?

What exactly do you plan to achieve with this?

Please shut down your bot.

The article on c/programming was about postgresql and the article on c/postgresql was about performance.

It really doesn’t matter. It’s really not about the article. It’s about the high volume of spam that you are trying to generate on programming.dev communities without creating any value at all. I mean, your bot is not cross-posting content: it’s spamming communities to get someone else to do the work.

Here’s the latest screwup that your bot is creating (link):

The [email protected] community currently lists 3 active users per month, and your bot spammed it on each new post sent to it asking those 3 active users to cross-post stuff to multiple communities. This is nuts.

Again, please stop with all the spamming. Your bot is the single most damaging thing done to programming.dev since its been launched.

I can’t stress enough how annoying and ill thought out this bot is. I’ve seen the bot react to posts to [email protected] pointing to [email protected] , and then react to posts to [email protected] to point to [email protected]. What’s the end goal here? Spam all communities with requests to cross-post stuff to all communities under the sun?

If the goal is to kill Lemmy as a usable service, you’re doing a good job.

Leaving my 0.02$ here:

Please don’t deploy this bot. It’s annoying, it contributes nothing to actually create interesting content for the community to engage, and in fact its main output is spam.

It does more harm than good. Please don’t.

I’d add that if the idea was any good then instead of spamming people left and right, it would suffice to crosspost stuff on target communities.