tugg

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.

I belive > 50% are bot accounts, maybe more.

I wish my local city's community had more people, but I'm afraid they'll never move over. Oh well, i created it anyway.

I've also created a few others that will get buried.