Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?
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 something that certain subs should 100% do, especially those based on image memes
I created a bot like this. https://github.com/driccio98/BotIt
It’s intended for links and I wouldn’t encourage using it for anything else, as you said I think the best idea is to crosspost content that isn’t on reddit on the first place, and just use reddit as a way to measure how engaging is the post.
This is so far a work in progress so expect bugs. But in my opinion, the bot is usable in this stage.Edit: I might add multiple subreddit and magazine/community support, so you could specify a map and pull from many places to post in many places, stay tuned.
thanks! I’m on lemmy but just saw /m/BotIt on kbin yesterday, and I assume you’re the main party behind that. Admirable work, I’m going to give it a try some time!___
That’s cool thanks I might try setting that up. Could always just setup multiple scripts for each sub to comm mapping.
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.
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.
It’s normal, Reddit (and Lemmy and kbin) is link aggregrator.
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/
Such an old internet vibe. When people created websites just for specific things like subs.rehab or that redditdark. Amazing
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.
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.
If they are the owners i didn’t see any problem.
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.
I think that the situation being described isn’t linking to Reddit, but linking to what Reddit is linking to.
If that will end up being the case I’m all for it. Just so long as it’s not a 1:1 copy with discussion posts and all. At least until lemmy gets bigger
It’s a good idea but honestly I am already enjoying the lemmy-unique content a lot more.
A necessary evil
Hear hear
There are some subreddits considered “oficial” that didn’t close and are working as usual. Maybe get content from those at least temporarily?
I created !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world 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.
Well said. A good mod (especially in these times) needs to take care of his sub. And that thing motivates the sub users.
This is absolutely the case. Communities need content to aggregate around before the community itself grows to a point where it can become content in its own right.
Reddit itself launched with the founders operating sockpuppet accounts to post content and have conversations, just so that it looked like there was already a community to join and activity happening when early adopters showed up.
https://kbin.social/m/BotIt is a bot that will do this for you
