I don't have a problem with it. Although, I do think "sublemmy" is a stupid word, and we should just say "community".

In short, copying Reddit's content is fine. Copying Reddit's terminology is silly.

@zephyr@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I created !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world a few days ago. Now it has >4k subscribers. I credit that to my meticulous reposting of content from other places (90% from /r/maliciousompliance, 10% from elsewhere). It took a bit of effort but now people are posting their OC.

A site like this needs to reach critical mass to be self-sustaining. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That’s not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it’s a ghost town and leave. Reposts are a temporary measure to get past the chicken-and-egg problem of "there's nothing here so people aren't visiting" and "people aren't visiting so they aren't posting stuff".

Reddit itself exists on reposts. As a (ex-)Redditor of 12 years, I've seen countless reposts. Ideally, reposts make up a small percentage of the content, but given the small nature of this universe, I'd personally encourage and advocate reposting of content from elsewhere to kickstart discussion.

Engagement is what makes or breaks a social media platform, especially in it's early days.

Right now, anything that boosts engagement is 100% good IMO. that will help retain users and attract more.

Honestly yes I think it makes sense to do this, as long as the content itself isn't hosted on reddit. It would be cool if somebody could make a bot for mods to enable this in their communities to specify subs to pull posts from and how often.

It's a good idea but honestly I am already enjoying the lemmy-unique content a lot more.

Reddit was all about reposting content. Whether it was from news sites or twitter, it was full of it. There's no reason why that couldn't be done here. Especially in early days.

It's normal, Reddit (and Lemmy and kbin) is link aggregrator.

I think it could be worth for the more news related subs to maybe use bots that pull at least the more upvoted submissions until they've got a more solid user base that submits more stuff themselves. Reposting the same old Reddit reposts from 15 years ago however I think is not worth it.

I think its good even if lemmy becomes huge, the less we have to look into those other sites to get info, the better.

And it helping the growth of the communities just makes it better. I hope people bring stuff from the other subreddits too.

A necessary evil

I'm of two minds about it. On one hand it would give Lemmy users more content to interact with which is good, on the other you're directing to where we just came from and increasing engagement there which is bad. So I'm on the fence. If someone wants to do it it's worth the experiment IMO, but I'm largely not going to be clicking that Reddit link unless its compelling. If it's linked to an external site aside from reddit I'm all for it though, so long as it doesn't get out of hand.

It's necessary for some important information and guides that would otherwise be destroyed on Reddit, we have to bring these informative posts and guides here (only the content, giving credits to the OP, no direct links to Reddit).

I don't like reposting content from Reddit unless it's suuuuuper good and relevant.

Especially if it's images with that shitty Reddit banner.

Like if the times are really slow, then a repost to keep the mood up is fine, but casually/regularly, I think that's meh.

Also, there are communities specialized in reposting/mirroring Reddit subs, so if that's what you want, just go there?

I'm already happy with the amount of content here and actually a bit lost with all the variety of content, instances, new communities, links. No great need to look back. But if you need to find equivalent communities, lookie here: https://sub.rehab/

No different than the bots that pull news from Twitter and repost it on Mastodon (there's a whole instance press.coop that hosts them), I don't see much of a problem. I'd prefer a bot do it as it limits how much traffic it gives to reddit.

It’s good we need more content which will drive more users

If they are the owners i didn't see any problem.

There are some subreddits considered "oficial" that didn't close and are working as usual. Maybe get content from those at least temporarily?

Nothing. And then you mirror the video and repost it, just like reddit did

I only do it in the other direction; cross post lemmy originals to the sinking ship.

Of course, when the lemmy post links to a video or article, the reddirt post will only link to the lemmy post and not directly to the content.

It's a way of helping others abandon ship, which indirectly adds content for us in the long run.

It signifies an intent to move to Lemmy by former Reddit users, so I have no problem with that...

@zephyr

It's more than OK for me.

I mean Reddit itself started as a content aggregator. It wasn't until it had built up enough of a userbase that it started creating its own content.

But it definitely feels a bit weird to be so focused on another site's content.

If it's contained to a specific instance like with Lemmit, I think it's fine.

It might still be confusing though, because comments on Lemmy obviously can't be synced back to Reddit, so interactions with Reddit users would be very one-sided.

https://kbin.social/m/BotIt is a bot that will do this for you