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Why are we copying over so much Reddit content? (lemmy.world)
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I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me.

I can kind of see it if a Reddit mod decides to move their forum from there to here, and wants to start with their existing content, but otherwise I'm not sure this is a good thing.

What do you guys think?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a factor that supports getting to critical mass, but should be used in moderation.

Reddit founders incessantly posted stuff from Digg and created fake conversation threads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Most content driven platforms have the same problem and initial practice due to the chicken-and-egg problem. If you don’t have content, users not gonna come; if users aren’t there, they won’t be submitting content. So to kick start a community, you’d need a group of vocal users contributing a lot of content and interacting with them.