Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?
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.
It’s a good idea but honestly I am already enjoying the lemmy-unique content a lot more.
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.
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.
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.
It’s more than OK for me.
I’m already happy with the 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/
It’s necessary for some important information and guides that would otherwise be destroyed on Reddit, we have to bring these informative posts and guides here.
I don’t like reposting content from Reddit unless it’s suuuuuper good and relevant.
Especially if it’s images with that shitty Reddit banner.
Like if the times are really slow, then a repost to keep the mood up is fine, but casually/regularly, I think that’s meh.
Also, there are communities specialized in reposting/mirroring Reddit subs, so if that’s what you want, just go there?
Is the philosophy in the Fediverse not to rely upon upvoting/downvoting to determine quality of content?
Just because something has been posted on Reddit doesn’t mean the bar for posting it here should be higher.
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 think that the situation being described isn’t linking to Reddit, but linking to what Reddit is linking to.
