All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
Please don’t do this.
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
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.
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”.
I think reposting content from reddit is fine, but we don’t need a bot for it. I’d rather see individuals bring over specific posts they think are notable as opposed to automatically copying everything they’ve got.
I’m not entirely against the idea, but also really don’t want to turn the fediverse into the flood of content that is reddit. Maybe some kind of relative upvote filter based bot. Only posts that get some certain percentage of above average number for a given sub, get scraped.
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eh, maybe wait until 0.18 rolls out across the fediverse before scraping reddit for content
Oh? What’s that going to do? I’m out of the loop.
0.17.4 is what is used now and it has a number of issues - included the new/scrolling bug. 0.18 is supposed to fix that & other issues as well.
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.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
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.
Bots in general suck.
But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.
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.
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.
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
