All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
Please don’t do this.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
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…
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.
In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.
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.
It’d be kind of nice to play catch up a bit with the, what, 18 years of content on Reddit
I know it might feel soulless, but having a constant stream of “pre-approved” content isn’t the worst idea
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.
As Reddit turns into a trash, the moderation and content quality will drop. Import the content may seem interesting at first, but in the long run it won’t worth the effort.
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.
You could dedicate a community to reddit reposts easy enough. If people want to see the stuff from reddit they can sub, if they would rather wash their hands of reddit they can ignore it or block it.
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.
Nah. If you see something interesting just post the direct link to it instead of going through reddit. Lemmy is a content aggregator after all.
It’d be a good idea to create an instance with different communities as someone said here for the kind of posts that people could contribute, no matter if reposts are made by people or by bots (in this case, posts need to be filtered by upvotes or upvotes ratio or manually selected), for example some posts I was referring to with my first comment were about some guides or wikis for certain apps, etc. Some important or interesting knowledge that won’t be here and that would make people like me forced to rely on Reddit.
That’s why I said just get the content of those posts and just give credits to the OP without just copying a link to redirect people to Reddit.
In fact, I wouldn’t want this to be filled with Reddit spam posts as most of them are useless.
