Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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 only do it in the other direction; cross post lemmy originals to the sinking ship.
Of course, when the lemmy post links to a video or article, the reddirt post will only link to the lemmy post and not directly to the content.
It’s a way of helping others abandon ship, which indirectly adds content for us in the long run.
I’m already happy with the amount of 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