How can we make it more popular?

  • keanu0396@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    One that that has made me unsubscribe from several communities here is when they are just bot-lead reposts of the equivalent subreddit. This makes these communities on lemmy objectively worse than the reddit equivalent because there is not the population to interact with the sheer volume of posts, and it just becomes spam without engagement.

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      1 year ago

      Totally agree. There’s no reason to respond to posts where the OP on Reddit will never see it, and the bot posts drown out any genuine user posts.

      It works for a small number of cases, but on the whole it’s a misguided attempt to fake content instead of growing communities naturally and it needs to go.

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      1 year ago

      Some of those even link to the reddit thread! So if anything it diverts Lemmy users back to reddit.

    • tsz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same here, and honestly the quality is just trash,save for a few decent communities. No one went to reddit for the content. All the value is in the comments, and here there’s either very little interaction, or a worse circle jerk than reddit ever had. There are exceptions, but that’s been my experience.