If anything, shouldn’t it be encouraged, and even automated? I’m including even the ‘old’ stuff from reddit here. Reddit shouldn’t be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users. When I migrated here, it wasn’t because of me being against reddit users, but being against reddit the company. Copying the content here actually hurts the company in sense that they don’t get to then gatekeep the crowdsourced content.
Reddit will still have higher search hits and Lemmy is outmatched. Dumping content from Reddit just makes this no better than a mirror. It stops real and unique content from hitting the top and this place won’t attract new users if they can just use Reddit which at this point has the content directly and is more reliable.
I’ve seen a number of communities that are otherwise dead without Reddit reposts, and being the most subscribed community for a given topic with the latest post being months ago is definitely not going to attract new users.
It’s either don’t repost, and new users won’t join because of dead community, or repost and have some activity, and maybe new users will join. With dead communities, new users won’t magically join, and new content won’t magically get created.
One such example was the bcpcsalescanada community, which was revived due to reposts.
This is unfortunately part of migrating. Not all communities can just move over. Larger ones will develop and with that side communities will start with a large enough user base. Reposting in this case still doesn’t do anything other than give you the exact same content as Reddit just now it’s without an interactive user base.
I’m not sure I agree… Or more precisely, it depends. !bapcsalescanada@lemmy.ca is an example of a community where there is value in reposting content from Reddit over, where the value is getting the coverage of deals. On Reddit, a small majority of users actively seek and share deals. If those users don’t move to Lemmy, that community is dead, period. No amount of enticement will introduce new content.
The secondary value now is that, previously, many users had to go to Reddit for that content, because that content isn’t available on Lemmy. Reposting isn’t just to kick-start user engagement, but is also a retention tool. Users don’t need to go to Reddit to fetch that info anymore. I know that was the case for me.
I understand the consequence of Lemmy being a mirror of Reddit. And yes, over reposting is detrimental. This is where reposts need to be strategically applied where it makes sense.
Ideally you don’t want a blood transfusion. But in specific circumstances, a blood transfusion kick-starts the healing/growth process.
Because automated reposts just drown out all the posts that people are actually participating in. Yes you could scrape reddit and repost all the content here but lemmy doesn’t have the userbase of reddit so your feed would just be full of a bunch of dead bot made posts.
But if a person deliberately reposts something from reddit in a Lemmy community where it fits and adds to the community then that’s perfectly fine.
lemmit.online should serve your Reddit needs… I just find that automated post copiers or serial reposters don’t add value to a discussion. They never reply to comments for example.
Lemmy flourishes by being its own thing, why would it need to perpetually be in Reddit’s shadow?
Some communities are dead or non-existing on lemmy while they’re vibrant on reddit. Repost can only bring life to lemmy. I really don’t understand the mindset of those people who don’t want content or people in their community.
Reddit shouldn’t be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users.
And neither should you, nor anyone else here running a reddit scraper bot.
If users want to (re-)post their content here as well, awesome, but automatically scraping reddit to repost other people’s content (which they then don’t know about, and can’t really interact with or control like it’s their own content.) is just spam imo.
Create and post your own original content while letting others worry about their own content. People can make their own decisions, why should you have the right to override that?
I’m copying my best jokes, anecdotes, and philosophical maundrings over manually, but
1 ) only my own content, and
B ) in ways that’s not “go look at this thing on reddit”, and of course
]I[ ) only in relevant communities or my own personal communy
So, in summary: Sourcing and curation are key to this, and automating the process is bad for both.
Not automated, but if you see something there that brings something on the table, by all means post it here. There’s nothing you can really steal from Reddit, and even if there was, go ahead and make it impossible to catch you. Companies like that don’t deserve any considerations from regular guys like us.
I think the strength of a community shouldn’t primarily be built upon content another separate community or platform produces.
Now there are givens, like major news and art which “transcends” a singular platform. But repeatedly just lifting content from somewhere else (aside from if you are the creator yourself obviously and wanting to share to different platforms) and shipping it over here isn’t a good look when Lemmy wishes to be a separate aggregator from Reddit.
There are a ton of people that decry reposts of any sort. I think the fact it comes from reddit given them more ammo in the sense that it came from reddit so it is even more poisonous to their pure and only new/original content online existence. If they have seen, so have you after all.
And on reddit, those folks were rampant. Like a circle jerk of gatekeepers reaching over to help one another out.
And buttercup don’t like seeing things twice.
I’m only against reposting reddit posts with a bot.
If you see content that’s interesting anywhere, by all means, bring it here.
If all this place is is a dumping ground for Reddit content then you may as well go right to the source.
The source got rid of 3rd party apps, which is why I’m here. So no, I don’t go right to that source anymore because their official app is flaming garbage. I appreciate their content however, so I’m grateful for anyone that brings it here so I can scroll through it on my phone using Sync still.
It sucks because I can’t interact with the OP
get used to interacting with bots, didn’t you hear, they are the future
If the repost bot would learn OP’s style from history then mimic OP that could be nice.
It’s not that people think content from Reddit is stealing, it’s that we don’t want our feeds polluted with bots autoposting bullshit.
Why would we want a whole copy of Reddit? Reddit is a toxic pit.
I’m fine with bots reposting images. Memes and whatever. Because the discussion is pretty irrelevant. What I’ve been seeing a lot of is bots reposting text posts. Like r/amitheasshole and the like. It pisses me off. Doesn’t make any goddamn sense, the OP isn’t here, you can’t discuss with them. And they always lack any conversation on here. It’s just spam and I report it as such.
I manually take content from Reddit.
I select myself what content to copy, so it’s not like bots than tend to spam things.
Feedback seems pretty good so far.
That’s because you’re doing it right. You’re not just some reddit spambot.
