Seems like an effective way to get content and engagement here
Automatically mirroring content will come with a couple of issues. One is that you won’t be able to actually address the OP. This is fine in a context like WhitePeopleTwitter or something where you’re talking about a thing someone has said on another platform, but if someone is posting something that’s specifically driving engagement, there’s a meaningful bit of environmental context missing.
Having a Best of Reddit community makes sense for stuff like that.
The other issue is that the current population here can only support engaging with so many posts. Yes, an environment with a lot of content is important to make the space feel useful and alive, but a space with thousands of posts with zero comments or upvotes actually ends up looking like a ghost town populated by forgotten animatronics.
Plus, posts pulled from Reddit will drown out anyone trying to post original content here, discouraging actual, real engagement, and pushing people out.
No, despite meaning our community will grow slowly, I am hating the repost bots shoveling shit from Reddit. That is giving Reddit more traction, and takes away from the engagement that is the core of a tifu post.
Uh… This is AITA, not TIFU. Although there are definitely times where both can apply to a single post. Have a nice day!
Omg lol sorry, brain fart while posting, but the sentiment remains the same! This community is about responding to the poster, I would feel weird responding to some guy on Reddit who will never see it!
No. You should post original content here. If people on Reddit think it’s interesting, they can link to it.
i don’t have a big stake since this is a community i don’t really take part in, but i will say when i see those bot posts that are just grabbing reddit posts and tossing them here i don’t really engage with them.
i feel compelled to comment on posts that were made with intention by a user that will actually see my input. it might add content but to me it seems like it would kind of be filler, less substantial than an actual poster making a thread.
I agree, I’m the same way.
Agreed. I feel like participating in posts that have waaaay more participation on Reddit and that OP will never ever see is just… Stupid
That’s a fair take. On the other hand, we might need to artificially create some engagement so that new joiners are more inclined to visit Lemmy. That should probably be over once the community is large enough
yeah, it’s a bit of an uphill battle to create communities online with how centralized the internet has gotten, especially on a whole different platform than where most users congregate. it might be a reasonable concession to make.
though i’d hope new users can take up the task of generating content themselves, that’s what platforms like this are made for. best way to nurture a culture of posting and engaging is to post and engage, which there should be enough users for at this point i think. it’s a bit idealistic though, not an easy issue.
The problem is that the vast majority of users just lurk, a minority just comment, and maybe less than one in a hundred actually submit content.
Take yourself as an example - it’s great you’ve been actively commenting but you haven’t actually submitted anything for people to engage with yet. And therein lies the problem.
At this early growth stage, Lemmy/Kbin need as much content as possible so that new users see the value in joining. If that means that mods have to take stuff from Reddit and submit it here, then so be it.
As AITA lives from interaction with OP, please don’t.
What I’m doing currently, is if on a community that exists as a subreddit, there is no post in the day, I’ll find some content on reddit (trying to find something relevant) and post it; to make communities “more alive”
If there already was some posts, I do not crosspost from reddit
That makes sense. FYI, there is an instance specialized in reposting: https://lemmit.online/c/AmItheAsshole
I tried to do this with NFL Memes, but all the images I downloaded from there got corrupted when downloading for some reason.
May be once a day only one post which is the top post for the day until we start generating our own content could be good.
To the extent that you can do it without spamming, promoting communities themselves wouldn’t be a bad idea, especially if you can offer a unique twist on an existing community or no analogue exists. You can reply to users who are looking for an off-reddit community. That way you attract genuine interest.
I think x-posting content is a good idea, but creating unique content, genuine content is better. Why would they come here if they can also see it on reddit? If there’s content here that people are interested in that they can’t find on reddit, they’ll come here organically.
I will disagree with most of the comments here, as long as it is specified in the title, there should be no problem with reposts from reddit.
Basically all link aggregation sites repost stuff from other sites. OC can be a fuzzy concept
I developed a bot for this purpose, it only crossposts links to external websites like news, it’s being used in a couple of communities that need a little push with content.
It only crosspost 1 post every hour to each community to avoid spamming and it can handle multiple subreddits at the same time.
That’s how I think it should be done, so far, users engage with the posts made by the bot in an organic way.
If you want to check it out: https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt
I’m open to suggestions :)
