Reddit

I'm personally archiving some of the great content from my community on Reddit because it meant so much to me, and to lose it would be a shame. I think it's important for us to preserve the foundational content of our communities.

I don't give a flying fuck.

There could be a few reasons.

• They want to copy over their favorite content.
• They want to try to attract more people to a community by bootstrapping content.
• They are trying to artificially inflate their instance for nefarious reasons.

Personally, I think adding some of your favorite Reddit posts is fine as long as you don't blindly copy over everything from a subreddit. I have a couple communities that I brought over that I like, but without content, they mean nothing.

Reddit never produced any content. The users did.

Users move. Content moves.

Lots of people like to collect things. When they move, they want to take their collections with them.

You have to jump-start communities. Copying is a simple way to do it.

I think it's a great way to get things started. People coming to check things out and seeing content are more likely to stay and create their own content.

Everything is recycled nothing is new.

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.

I'm not loving the RSS/Reddit bot posts really, I'm personally blocking a lot of such lemmy-bots.

I'm a fan of people sharing links and starting conversations or showing off an interesting/shiny thing with the communities themselves.

To.....maybe be not Reddit for a change. 🤔

Then again I'm an elder Millennial and remember live journal and myspace.

I mean I'm here weening off reddit as well.

Could see the benefit of temporarily posting reddit moderator/pin posts or such. Emphasis on temporary.

But the daily influx of such stuff when I attempt to view All as New is certainly a journey.

I don't see it as a problem since a lot of people are nuking their Reddit accounts, and I'd guess most of us are Reddit refugees.

I would imagine so that the information is not lost forever when many accounts get deleted or they nuke their comments and then delete their account.

When googling information i usually end the search with “reddit” as Reddit makes it harder to view without signing in to the app i want to be able to google with the word lemmy instead so having the information here is helpful

transitional period i'd assume to make it easier for people to ease in, when the content they're expecting still flows in

I don't know about this one. I mean Reddit memes don't always originate from Reddit, time and time again id see old internet content from 12 years ago from ifunny or 9gag etc.

I also think that if a lot of the users have been in a Reddit tunnel for a long time, of course they're going to think similarly... questions even on Reddit get repeated ad nauseum (e.g "redditors, what is the most nsfw thing that's happened to you" and people commenting about actual OHSA stuff instead of sexy stuff= haha).
I'm not entirely sure humans are capable of have original thoughts 100% of the time. Probably not even 20%. That's especially true if they're getting all their info/humor from the same places.

Memes are memes!

With c/Titanfall, we're using the lemmit bot to re-post some of the stuff from reddit to lemmy.

We're curating what exactly makes it to the new community, but it's a short term way to have some content to get started with.

Long term, I would not want it to continue

Reddit didn;t invent conversation. some of my favorite subreddits were niche for podcasts that I like, and those buttholes are still live. whatever

Same reason I want more forums like Fedora Discussion, Ask Ubuntu, and Stack Overflow on the Fediverse. I like the Fediverse as a way to see information and have discussion on it. More good content, the better. Without good content, I would never have used Reddit in the first place.

I think most of the content on reddit was copied to begin with.

I used to mod quite a few subreddits I created and some others. There are a few worth dumping and reimporting to preserve work of others which is valuable.

I've been deleting my content on Reddit, and while I'm sad to see some of it go, I would not be happy to find it's been copied over to Lemmy without my permission. Also, a lot of what I post on any forum is meant to be part of the conversation happening when I post, and having it sit around getting stale for 10+ years isn't necessarily a good thing. If people liked what I wrote and wanted to hold onto it in their own records, that's fine, but that's not the same as migrating my content to a different platform, context, and audience. Reposting takes control of the content out of my hands, and puts it in theirs, and possibly makes my content benefit people I don't like. (Fortunately, it is extremely unlikely anyone does want to repost my content, lol).

As far as whether it's good for Lemmy... I think it depends on whether or not we want to recreate a subreddit. Putting up the same content as a particular sub is going to tend to recreate the vibe of that sub. IMO that could be either very good or very bad, depending on the sub.

Leaving Reddit was a bad breakup for a lot of us. Like leaving an Ex that used to beat you all the time, but you don't want to go

Because Lemmy needs content.

And while text posts may be another matter, what is wrong with copying links? Reddit is just linking elsewhere themselves.

It's basically how reddit got its start - as an aggregator of content that originated elsewhere.

Reddit was started as a link aggregator so there is nothing wrong with copying stuff from Reddit that was copied there from somewhere else anyway

and Reddit copied Digg.

because it's our content, not reddit's.

Just priming the pump until things take off.

I mean a good portion of us aren't leaving reddit because we dislike reddit's content or userbase. We left to get away from the abusive admins. If we can smuggle the community and content in our coat pockets on our way out the door, that's just stealing back what is rightfully ours to begin with.

I copy content for /m/DunderMifflin, which is a tiny magazine for The Office that I founded and moderate. It's easier to copy stuff over than to think it up yourself, natch, and having some new content there gives people a reason to subscribe and possibly comment. It's not a long-term plan. I see it as a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.