Was just wondering if that was a reasonable and ethical way of growing Lemmy…
I think it’s fine, but I also don’t think any of us need to do anything beyond come here and engage with one another.
No online community lasts forever, but Reddit isn’t going away soon. It’ll continue disenfranchising people with each thing it does in pursuit of profitability and with each step away from what initially made it special. People will keep coming here.
I think the best thing folks here can do is just keep using the space and let it develop into whatever. People it appeals to will join us. Those who aren’t into it will go somewhere else. In a few more years, I hope that Lemmy is its own thing that feels special in its own right.
They are hyperlinks, there is nothing unethical about sharing them.
But then we will be getting the content from Reddit instead of Lemmy. What’s the point of leaving Reddit then? we will be still using it in a indirect way.
Not sure about that, it could end up being counterproductive, I mean, reddit is full of spam, if there’s no good antispam feature here you could ruin communities with a bot copying content.
Not to mention that if someone on reddit realizes there are bots copying content, they could even spam the subs on purpose.
I believe it would be better to do it manually, copying the source in case of links, not copying text post, that wouldn’t be honest IMO.
I was just going to comment this… I have thought reddit has been on a strong downhill decline for the last 8 years. There is so much spam and misinformation and ads disguised as posts and fluff… I didn’t trust half what was posted there anyway.
What I’m finding on lemmy is that it is more organic, I feel like people are more genuine, and I think if we copy posts 1:1 and bring in the spam and misinformation and fluff then that defeats the purpose. I get people might be having withdrawals from reddit, I’ve habitually used it for 15 years, but I’ve deleted my accounts and I’m over it. It’s dead to me. This is a new community, we don’t have to be a reddit mirror, and I’d prefer it not to be.
