All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
Nah. This is a fresh start. It’s been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It’ll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit
I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.
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If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.
Please don’t do this.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
I’ve been beating this drum since I got on here.
Here’s the software you would need to put it in a special instance: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter
Absolutely don’t. Lemmy is ran by volunteers for the people. It doesn’t have corporate backing. You would be filling it with content it doesn’t need and most likely cannot handle.
I think the community is much more important than just having more content. I would worry that by flooding Lemmy with Reddit’s content without the community to support that content could drown everyone out.
Yeah I agree. I think being able to tweak a personalised scraper as an opt in service per community could work. Some subs just won’t work for this, like askreddit and Eli5, but niche communities, news communities and information communities. I would be happy just seeing the top 2 or 3 posts of the day for some, and for world news for example, only the posts that pass a certain threshold of upvotes in a certain time or against the subs size, to make sure the real news pops up quick.
Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it’s spammy it’ll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.
But I also liked the…(whispers) cosplay…
That’s something I don’t miss. Not that I don’t admire it, I just keep thinking “wow that’s cool but christ what I could do with the money they spent on that”.
Bots in general suck.
But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.
I say keep it distinct.
Reddit has had its day.
Use what fediverse is good at. Make an instance where these bots reside and anyone who doesn’t want them can just defederate.
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I think many would be more interested in a migration tool. A way of porting a subreddit’s worth of content to lemmy and start off strong, as well as preserve what might be several subreddits getting nuked as damage control.
I think there’s value to it. There’s a ton of really important and helpful documentation on there for all kinds of fields, in the past couple days I’ve noticed some references I’ve had for tech issues and guitar repair are no longer accessible, for example. There’s going to be a period where looking for help/answers online for certain issues is going to be a nightmare.
