I started working on a script that will take top post from subreddits to post then to corresponding c/ on lemmy with various accounts to give the impression of minimal activity.
The idea comes from a lemmy user etting saying they would never want to support reddit with lemmy content (or in general), and instead just taking the content from there and putting it on lemmy.
It feels like I’m just kinda sewing lemmy into the human centipede that is content filler. I can see why content does get reposted it’s entertaining and engaging and they propagate.
It does feel like a Pandora’s jar like I’m laying a foundation for a bot army even though I only plan to be small scale
Something similar has been done before and it was really easy to spot. I won’t get into the details, but it was really trashy. There are other communities that try to copy Reddit already and I block most of them.
Communities driven by one persons posts or by a cluster of bots generally suck. Yes, communities must start with only one person, but if nobody else likes the idea and the community doesn’t drive participation from Lemmy as a whole, it’s simply noise.
Post content that you like, in communities that matter to you. If you like a particular strain of content, start a new community. People will join or they won’t. Read the room and continue driving the community, or don’t.
Automated posts have their place, but most people can spot it fairly quick. It generally doesn’t drive participation as much as organic posts.
Bluntly though, if you want Reddit content, go to Reddit. Lemmy isn’t Reddit and that is what people generally like about it.
This makes zero sense. “Reddit content” is not exclusive to Reddit, and the people who came to Lemmy are not looking for alternative “content”, they are looking for an alternative, non-corporate controlled platform. Telling people to go to Reddit plays exactly to their game.
You are missing my point, but I also wasn’t clear enough. In proper context, we are saying the same thing.
I worded that sentence carefully, as to your point, I don’t actually want to tell people to go to Reddit. However, each platform is unique in its own way. If someone wants the Reddit experience, that is the only place they are going to find it. Reddit content is generally curated algorithmically while Lemmy content is not. It’s could be the same articles on the same day, but two different experiences.
OP was referring to reposting content for someone who seemed to be looking for the same volume of content that is on Reddit that is heavily sorted, unless I missed something. I was just saying that this platform doesn’t really support that kind of thing in a constructive way. The articles and the presentation combined make the platform “content”.
Lol I love it when people say “youre missing my point”. It generally means the point was addressed and there’s no further discussion.
Plus you get what I said wrong. I never implied I wanted the same volume of content as reddit, in fact I said “small scale” and “minimal activity”
Y’all got your brain work and make up your own reality
Maybe we are talking about the same thing, but I think we are talking about different parts of the elephant.
To me, the interesting part of Reddit was not in the popular communities, but in the tail end of niches. These simply do not exist in Lemmy, because we do not have the critical mass to sustain discussion about anything else other than politics, and this meta-conversation about Lemmy/Fediverse. To anyone looking for things in the long tail, Lemmy is void of content, so even if they wanted to move away from Reddit they would have no choice.
So, yeah, I agree that reposting about things that are popular in Reddit make no sense, but if we want to get rid of Reddit, then we will need to duplicate the volume of content they have in the niche communities to get over the chicken-and-egg problem.