Edit: It seems like there’s enough people that would prefer this didn’t happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I’m not going to move forward with this idea.
I was thinking it’d be nice to have a bot pull top posts from Reddit, and repost them to their corresponding Lemmy analogs to help bolster the content available on Lemmy while it’s growing. I’m not sure if this kind of functionality would be desired by other users, or legal under Reddit ToS. I was thinking that if this was desired, it could be done for cheap under Reddit’s new API costs. An effort would also be made to prevent reposts as well. I would definitely like to hear everyone’s opinions on this.
I feel like the new communities are budding just fine. I say let nature take its course.
Legal, probably. Bad taste? Yeah, definitely. I get the idea, but the people who are still posting over there having their shit just get copied over here is going to give people a bad impression of the fediverse. If the fediverse is strong enough to replace reddit, then it can stand on its own and make it’s own unique stuff.
Have you been paying attention to Reddit content for the past I don’t even know how many years? It’s all TikTok and twitter reposts, and before that it was 9gag and 4chan reposts. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what op is asking if the past is anything to go off of
But do we want Lemmy to be reposts of Reddit which is reposts of TikTok, Twitter, 9gag, and 4chan? I’d say fresh content here would be the best foot forward to start with!
I mean the beauty of the fediverse is you can have your cake and eat it too in this scenario. If someone wants to spin up an instance that’s just reposts that duplicate communities elsewhere, you could selectively subscribe to both or only the one without reposts.
I don’t love the idea, although I understand why it might seem like a good one.
I left Reddit because of the decisions they made. I’m sure plenty of the people here did the same. We didn’t like Reddit, so let’s do something different, rather than just trying to make Reddit again here.
New content, new community, new infrastructure - a different setup might lead to a different, hopefully better, outcome!
Just my opinion though, and I do totally understand why more content would be a good idea!
Nah fuckem, raid their meme stores for all they are worth
I’d say if someone is planning to do this just create a new lemmy explicitly for this purpose. I don’t think it would be healthy for existing communities if too many posts are just copied from reddit with no OP to engage with.