I don’t think this is true and our conversation is proof too that. This post could have been written by a bot and yet we still don’t interact with OP even though he is human. At this point we are not only generating content for others to see and to inject their pov. But also embolding OPs post getting it higher in the ranking as unique and worthy content.

Also most humans who post og content don’t respond that often. Ofc their are alot of exceptions online but normal humans aren’t able to respond to everyone anyway, unless they forsake their life in order to respond to every comment made.

So I don’t believe it’s garbage when starting out. Later on yes.

It’s not about that. it’s about generating content to generate traffic so the new users will create content on their own.

Basically like jumpstarting a car.

(No content. No users, chicken and egg problem)

Couldn’t we just scrape reddit with some bots and VPN and have the content populate Lemmy?

I mean this is exactly how some other platforms started out in the past.