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Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here? (communick.news)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Arguments to support the idea:

  • According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
  • People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
  • Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I'm seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If there's more activity on Reddit then here, then Reddit repost bots make it feel like all the community action is happening on Reddit. They push people back to Reddit because that's where all the new posts are coming from, so why engage here if the active discussion is already in progress over there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Communities with >50% repost content are unsubscribed by me. If I have communities spamming my timeline with reposts, I just block em. Having to open at least two link and read the content on both sites just to get the info and understand the discussion/context is generally a huge waste of my time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am giving you real data: the communities where the mirrors are active end up with more organic activity than those without.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I've mostly seen communities overwhelmed with bot posts and 0 replies, but I haven't taken any statistics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bit they're giving you real data.