Genuine question.

There are tons of niche subs on Reddit that aren’t on Lemmy or don’t have enough people posting. Lemmy could benefit from bots that automatically post Reddit content. Why is this not a thing?

  • remotelove@lemmy.ca
    41·
    3 months ago

    It still is a thing, but I just mute those communities. They usually have zero participation by Lemmy anyway.

    If I wanted to see Reddit content, I would go to Reddit.

    • doodledup@lemmy.worldOP
      104·
      3 months ago

      This leaves me going to Reddi for 90% of the content I enjoy. It’s also the main reason why most people still use Reddit and not Lemmy. I don’t see why crossposting would be a problem. Crossposting is being done anyways. Reposting too. Where is the difference?

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
        7·
        3 months ago

        We need to build communities here, but that takes time. What I have personally seen is that many niche communities that are on Reddit just fail with Lemmy. (I suspect that most of that is because of the lack of algorithmic boosting.)

        I am not saying cross posting from Reddit is a bad thing, btw. It’s my personal preference to read actual user content where I can interact with OP. It’s highly likely that “fake” content just doesn’t pull my dopamine triggers the same way, s’all.

        Content is here, but it’s generated at a much slower pace. Honestly, that is much more healthy for me.

        • doodledup@lemmy.worldOP
          42·
          3 months ago

          Niche communities fail because 99% of users are not posters and there are too few posters and users on Lemmy in general. You need content for people to move to Lemmy. They will never move to a dead Lemmy community (unless they are ideologically motivated). It will never happen in a hundred years.

          • remotelove@lemmy.ca
            9·
            3 months ago

            Yep. It takes a ton of work and time to build a community that will attract more people who generate content.

            With every shit move that Reddit pulls, it pushes more people to Lemmy. While I have zero intentions of being as active on Lemmy as I was on Reddit, I have still racked up a couple thousand comments or so over the last year. Even that interaction generates content, but it’s still only a tiny contribution.

            TBH, I just shifted what kind of content I consumed. That did come at the price of doing without some types for the time being. However, the interaction with other users is generally much better here. Many people stay here on Lemmy because of that and honestly, I feel that is a much better experience.

            What I am saying is that Lemmy is getting bigger, but it will probably take another five or so years to get the momentum Reddit had ten years ago. It’ll happen because it’s just a matter of time before Reddit is purely investor driven and all value is completely extracted. (It’s just like how Facebook is mostly for old people now.)

      • MagicShel@programming.dev
        6·
        3 months ago

        There’s no discussion or interaction on the bot posts. And if you subscribe to them they tend to overwhelm your feed quickly. And your Lemmy experience becomes akin to someone just sharing a bunch of article links. That’s the opposite reason I used Reddit or come here.

        Lastly questions being crossposted are really dumb. Imagine AskReddit or AITA where your comments aren’t read by anyone, much less the person posing the actual question.

        Cross posts with Reddit do exist and they are completely pointless.

      • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        The cross posting was annoying because there was a lot of it and there was no engagement. I’d prefer a few submissions with actual engagement than a ton of ghost town submissions.