I think it’s great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn’t seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I’m seeing discussion threads, which doesn’t make sense to me.
I can kind of see it if a Reddit mod decides to move their forum from there to here, and wants to start with their existing content, but otherwise I’m not sure this is a good thing.
What do you guys think?
I’m personally archiving some of the great content from my community on Reddit because it meant so much to me, and to lose it would be a shame. I think it’s important for us to preserve the foundational content of our communities.
Curious what tooling you’re using. I think they all have the 1000 post limit but I at least found BDFRX easy to use to back up my sub’s 1000 most recent posts and am just looking to host that and link to it in a future community here on lemmy
I am PMing users on Reddit to ask permission to reshare their OC, and then manually posting here once I obtain it. It gives me the chance to give the posts a pass for typos and such, which is nice.
I don’t give a flying fuck.
Reddit never produced any content. The users did.
Users move. Content moves.
If it was a user who posted content there and decided they’d rather have it here, that would make sense. But this appears to be bots scraping Reddit subs for content and copying big chunks here. I don’t know about you, but I’m not likely to respond to that kind of post. I don’t think it fosters discussion or helps us.
There could be a few reasons.
- They want to copy over their favorite content.
- They want to try to attract more people to a community by bootstrapping content.
- They are trying to artificially inflate their instance for nefarious reasons.
Personally, I think adding some of your favorite Reddit posts is fine as long as you don’t blindly copy over everything from a subreddit. I have a couple communities that I brought over that I like, but without content, they mean nothing.
Lots of people like to collect things. When they move, they want to take their collections with them.
And there is so much knowledge deposited in reddit that it would be unwise to let its future on the hands of gold seekers. I wish we had more time for the backups, and that those that overwrote their posts and comments can share that lost info here.
I think it’s a great way to get things started. People coming to check things out and seeing content are more likely to stay and create their own content.
Everything is recycled nothing is new.
This was even true before they even copied it out from Reddit.
It’s a factor that supports getting to critical mass, but should be used in moderation.
Reddit founders incessantly posted stuff from Digg and created fake conversation threads.
Most content driven platforms have the same problem and initial practice due to the chicken-and-egg problem. If you don’t have content, users not gonna come; if users aren’t there, they won’t be submitting content. So to kick start a community, you’d need a group of vocal users contributing a lot of content and interacting with them.
transitional period i’d assume to make it easier for people to ease in, when the content they’re expecting still flows in
I would imagine so that the information is not lost forever when many accounts get deleted or they nuke their comments and then delete their account.
I don’t see it as a problem since a lot of people are nuking their Reddit accounts, and I’d guess most of us are Reddit refugees.
I’m not loving the RSS/Reddit bot posts really, I’m personally blocking a lot of such lemmy-bots.
I’m a fan of people sharing links and starting conversations or showing off an interesting/shiny thing with the communities themselves.
To…maybe be not Reddit for a change. 🤔
Then again I’m an elder Millennial and remember live journal and myspace.
I mean I’m here weening off reddit as well.
Could see the benefit of temporarily posting reddit moderator/pin posts or such. Emphasis on temporary.
But the daily influx of such stuff when I attempt to view All as New is certainly a journey.
I don’t know about this one. I mean Reddit memes don’t always originate from Reddit, time and time again id see old internet content from 12 years ago from ifunny or 9gag etc.
I also think that if a lot of the users have been in a Reddit tunnel for a long time, of course they’re going to think similarly… questions even on Reddit get repeated ad nauseum (e.g “redditors, what is the most nsfw thing that’s happened to you” and people commenting about actual OHSA stuff instead of sexy stuff= haha).
I’m not entirely sure humans are capable of have original thoughts 100% of the time. Probably not even 20%. That’s especially true if they’re getting all their info/humor from the same places.Memes are memes!
Slightly off topic, but OMG I would absolutely love a community that’s “NSFW, but actually OSHA violations.” It would probably be a pain in the buns to mod, though.
With c/Titanfall, we’re using the lemmit bot to re-post some of the stuff from reddit to lemmy.
We’re curating what exactly makes it to the new community, but it’s a short term way to have some content to get started with.
Long term, I would not want it to continue
Same reason I want more forums like Fedora Discussion, Ask Ubuntu, and Stack Overflow on the Fediverse. I like the Fediverse as a way to see information and have discussion on it. More good content, the better. Without good content, I would never have used Reddit in the first place.
