Asklemmy

Engagement is what makes or breaks a social media platform, especially in it's early days.

Right now, anything that boosts engagement is 100% good IMO. that will help retain users and attract more.

I don't have a problem with it. Although, I do think "sublemmy" is a stupid word, and we should just say "community".

In short, copying Reddit's content is fine. Copying Reddit's terminology is silly.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

I created [email protected] a few days ago. Now it has >4k subscribers. I credit that to my meticulous reposting of content from other places (90% from /r/maliciousompliance, 10% from elsewhere). It took a bit of effort but now people are posting their OC.

A site like this needs to reach critical mass to be self-sustaining. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That’s not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it’s a ghost town and leave. Reposts are a temporary measure to get past the chicken-and-egg problem of "there's nothing here so people aren't visiting" and "people aren't visiting so they aren't posting stuff".

Reddit itself exists on reposts. As a (ex-)Redditor of 12 years, I've seen countless reposts. Ideally, reposts make up a small percentage of the content, but given the small nature of this universe, I'd personally encourage and advocate reposting of content from elsewhere to kickstart discussion.

It's a good idea but honestly I am already enjoying the lemmy-unique content a lot more.

I think it could be worth for the more news related subs to maybe use bots that pull at least the more upvoted submissions until they've got a more solid user base that submits more stuff themselves. Reposting the same old Reddit reposts from 15 years ago however I think is not worth it.

No different than the bots that pull news from Twitter and repost it on Mastodon (there's a whole instance press.coop that hosts them), I don't see much of a problem. I'd prefer a bot do it as it limits how much traffic it gives to reddit.

I don't like reposting content from Reddit unless it's suuuuuper good and relevant.

Especially if it's images with that shitty Reddit banner.

Like if the times are really slow, then a repost to keep the mood up is fine, but casually/regularly, I think that's meh.

Also, there are communities specialized in reposting/mirroring Reddit subs, so if that's what you want, just go there?

I'm of two minds about it. On one hand it would give Lemmy users more content to interact with which is good, on the other you're directing to where we just came from and increasing engagement there which is bad. So I'm on the fence. If someone wants to do it it's worth the experiment IMO, but I'm largely not going to be clicking that Reddit link unless its compelling. If it's linked to an external site aside from reddit I'm all for it though, so long as it doesn't get out of hand.

Reddit was all about reposting content. Whether it was from news sites or twitter, it was full of it. There's no reason why that couldn't be done here. Especially in early days.

@zephyr

It's more than OK for me.

I'm already happy with the content here and actually a bit lost with all the variety of content, instances, new communities, links. No great need to look back. But if you need to find equivalent communities, lookie here: https://sub.rehab/

It's necessary for some important information and guides that would otherwise be destroyed on Reddit, we have to bring these informative posts and guides here.

Honestly yes I think it makes sense to do this, as long as the content itself isn't hosted on reddit. It would be cool if somebody could make a bot for mods to enable this in their communities to specify subs to pull posts from and how often.

It's normal, Reddit (and Lemmy and kbin) is link aggregrator.