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Wanted to ask you something. How do you feel about reposting from reddit, either posts that I have saved over the time of using it or "crossposting" manually to have more content here?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no objections to a human individual deciding to dual-post their own new posts. I have no interest in tools trying to mass copy old posts. Lemmy communities either have to sink or swim on the strength of the human interactions they facilitate, robots copying old junk doesn't help anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well said, also a bot doing the reposting would probably have the same API issues that triggered the migration in the first place.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If anything, we should start filling Reddit with content hosted on various lemmy instances, to make it crystal clear where the OC is moving.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think that is a good strategy to convince people to leave. Also it adds strains to the Lemmy instances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The site is a link aggregator, posting links to other social media is kinda its schtick

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mastadon is filled with bots that copy tweets from Twitter. They've been doing it for years, yet still have not gained traction. I think we can copy the style, but not the content. Post it as your own, make it original. I don't think Lemmy will continue it's momentum if it tries to be pseudo-reddit, or reddit 2.0. People will just stay/go back to reddit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some of the aggregators I use have Reddit posts as content. If it's interesting I go to the source and post that to Lemmy. I'm not posting Reddit links. Not giving them traffic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe the opposite? If that's possible. I'd rather crosspost from Lemmy to reddit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it'd be a chore and very few people who start doing this will keep doing this unless there's a tool like the ones that let you post to Twitter and Mastodon at the same time.