Many of them just link back to reddit, no idea what’s useful about that

All I want is an nsfw scraping bot. Only reason I still open Reddit. Lemmy’s NSFW content is lacking

All the other bots that I see from lemm.it are useless imo

It’s a great question. I am missing certain content from the niche sub-reddits and trying hard not to fall back to Reddit.

Some of this ‘reposting’ will help the community to add comments/interaction but as you mention may turn this platform into a leech.

Either way people implementing Bots helps the moderation teams to some extent.

I have already contributed my two cents on this before the exodus. If you tolerate these types of low effort bots here, you will kill the platform.

Nobody wants that shit.

I find them useless because you often lose the necessary title and post text that accompanied the image, plus you always lose the relevant discussion. This last bit is almost always the most engaging part of the post.

I suppose they could be useful in adult communities, or for memes and shitposting where titles and text are either redundant or useless.

All in all, I say we get rid of them.