Arguments to support the idea:

  • According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
  • People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
  • Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I’m seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news
  • Linker3000@discuss.tchncs.deMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Interesting comments all round. Let’s run with the discussion for a week to allow infrequent visitors a chance to comment and then see if there’s a strong trend towards a specific opinion.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think mirroring questions and requests for help is a terrible idea, no one is going to want to answer a question here if most of them are mirrored and the original asker is not here to get the answer.

    It’s frustrating to put out a well thought out answer then realize that the person who asked will never see it.

  • Linker3000@discuss.tchncs.deMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    After 9 days, the upvotes and downvotes are tied so nothing changes for now, but we can revisit later.

    Personally, I’d prefer organic growth rather than reposting stuff from Reddit.

    Spread the word about the sub!

  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I greatly prefer the occasional original post with actuall engagement to a flood of reposts. If I want reddit posts, I will go on reddit (and also get comments and things like that). On a more meta level, the only way a community can gain and retain users is by offering unique content. If 99% of content is just content from Reddit (with missing comments), why should anyone bother to use Lemmy?

    Subscribing to a comunity does not cost anything, very few people will leave a community because it is dead, but people will leave a community that spams their feed.

    • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sorry, your comment is just rehashing all the arguments that I had in many other discussions:

      If I want reddit posts, I will go on reddit

      The idea is to not give more traffic to reddit and to help people get out of it. By having the content mirrored here, not only we have a method to consume the content from there, we also ensure that the majority of people (a.k.a, the 90% of lurkers) can find on Lemmy the content they are used to consume from Reddit, thus facilitating the migration and fueling network effects.

      with missing comments

      My system also mirrors the comments, so you won’t be missing anything.

      but people will leave a community that spams their feed.

      I’m not talking about mirroring posts from communities that are super popular. The idea is to get the content from the long tail of niche communities. There won’t be a “flood” of spam because we are talking about communities that have a handful of posts and comments per day.