LEGO

Looking back on your posts on this community, I do realize that I was a little quick to judge. Many, but in fact not all, of your image-based posts on this community are just reposts from what was top-rated from the Lego subreddit that day/week.

The reason many have left Reddit is because of the bots that repeatedly just repost top posts, which is not what I want to see here. I don’t see how you can attract an audience by giving them exactly what they would otherwise get from your competitor. In your methodology, you’re not only offering the same content, but you’re also offering the same audience deterrent in the form of copy+pasting top posts. This approach is functionally identical to Reddit’s repost bots.

I would suggest that you draw from more varied sources, rather than just what was top on the Lego subreddit at the moment. If you have no OC and you want to post, there are other sources for Lego content. You can draw from Eurobricks, BrickLink MOCs, Rebrickable, and other social media such as Instagram, YouTube, or Flickr. Even obscure and underrated posts on Reddit (even old ones) can help to demonstrate to a potential audience that we have what none of our competitors have on their own. I do see that you have on occasion drawn from some of these various sources in the past, but I think a more diverse and esoteric pool is what would interest people. People aren’t going to leave Reddit just to see a sliver of what they would go to Reddit for.

As for this particular post, I wouldn’t have minded seeing it shared if there was not already a pattern of posts being copy+pasted from the top of the Lego subreddit for a given day. I don’t want to go to Lemmy just to be late to the Reddit party. The post being a Twitter screenshot doesn’t matter as it’s not an issue of who made what here, but a matter of rehashing; I’d liken it to the Buzzfeed articles or YouTube content farms that copy several Reddit posts/comments and turn them into content for their own media. The case of this Lemmy post is made worse by the sourced Reddit post being made by a repost bot, which is exactly what I wanted to escape from by leaving Reddit.

Another technique of recruiting new users may be through posting direct links to content that is a “Lemmy exclusive” of sorts. For example, posting a link on Reddit to somebody’s OC Lemmy post, or tweeting “Found this cool build on https://lemmy.world/c/lego!”.

As a (typically) OC poster in this community, I feel demotivated to post OC that would have to compete against the “farmed” content which has proven successful.