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’ve been deleting my content on Reddit, and while I’m sad to see some of it go, I would not be happy to find it’s been copied over to Lemmy without my permission. Also, a lot of what I post on any forum is meant to be part of the conversation happening when I post, and having it sit around getting stale for 10+ years isn’t necessarily a good thing. If people liked what I wrote and wanted to hold onto it in their own records, that’s fine, but that’s not the same as migrating my content to a different platform, context, and audience. Reposting takes control of the content out of my hands, and puts it in theirs, and possibly makes my content benefit people I don’t like. (Fortunately, it is extremely unlikely anyone does want to repost my content, lol).
As far as whether it’s good for Lemmy… I think it depends on whether or not we want to recreate a subreddit. Putting up the same content as a particular sub is going to tend to recreate the vibe of that sub. IMO that could be either very good or very bad, depending on the sub.
I don’t give a flying fuck.
Leaving Reddit was a bad breakup for a lot of us. Like leaving an Ex that used to beat you all the time, but you don’t want to go
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.
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.
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.
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.
When googling information i usually end the search with “reddit” as Reddit makes it harder to view without signing in to the app i want to be able to google with the word lemmy instead so having the information here is helpful
@nxlemmy
Only difference here is maybe some posts don’t originate on an instance with the word Lemmy in it. It could be kbin or feddit or beehaw, etc.We gotta find out whatever the best search term would be for the Fediverse.
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.
It’s basically how reddit got its start - as an aggregator of content that originated elsewhere.
transitional period i’d assume to make it easier for people to ease in, when the content they’re expecting still flows in
