All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?

  • Acetamide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.

  • gina@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.

  • atlasraven31@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.

  • ShoePaste@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Nah. This is a fresh start. It’s been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It’ll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit

  • Shrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.

  • withersailor@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it’s spammy it’ll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s something I don’t miss. Not that I don’t admire it, I just keep thinking “wow that’s cool but christ what I could do with the money they spent on that”.

  • arthur@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    As Reddit turns into a trash, the moderation and content quality will drop. Import the content may seem interesting at first, but in the long run it won’t worth the effort.

  • Ivyymmy@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’d be a good idea to create an instance with different communities as someone said here for the kind of posts that people could contribute, no matter if reposts are made by people or by bots (in this case, posts need to be filtered by upvotes or upvotes ratio or manually selected), for example some posts I was referring to with my first comment were about some guides or wikis for certain apps, etc. Some important or interesting knowledge that won’t be here and that would make people like me forced to rely on Reddit.

    That’s why I said just get the content of those posts and just give credits to the OP without just copying a link to redirect people to Reddit.

    In fact, I wouldn’t want this to be filled with Reddit spam posts as most of them are useless.

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Bots in general suck.

    But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.

  • Targo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think there’s value to it. There’s a ton of really important and helpful documentation on there for all kinds of fields, in the past couple days I’ve noticed some references I’ve had for tech issues and guitar repair are no longer accessible, for example. There’s going to be a period where looking for help/answers online for certain issues is going to be a nightmare.