NaibofTabr

I’m not a fan of bots ripping content from Reddit. But these would be humans.

The content on Reddit is also submitted by humans (well, mostly).

You would just be adding a thread inclusive of replies. Unlike bots, toot authors also reply.

This assumes that a post pulled from Mastodon to Lemmy will also push comments from Lemmy back to Mastodon (or at least notifications of comments)… which is a real infrastructure problem, and also depends on the Mastodon communities wanting that interaction, and the admins allowing it.

The value of communities in Lemmy comes from the members of the community participating in them. The members choose material to present to their community with intent, with the desire to contribute to their community. The community then adds value by interacting with the presented material (even a negative response from the community adds value to the community by refining the community identity and interest).

Automatically pulling in material from non-community members destroys the value of the community. It pollutes the community space with material that no community member chose prior to its presentation.

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Niche communities really only have value when they grow organically. Trying to artificially inflate them won’t make them better.

What would be the point of trying to increase the user count, beyond “line goes up”?

We need to get our own traditions

why not start off with our own r/Place

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If the plan was to provide evidence for the idea that Lemmy is a second-rate, tryhard copycat, well done!

This community is perfectly capable of generating its own traditions without trying to force it… and the fact that reddit recently tried to use r/Place to distract from the recent controversy makes this imitation that much sadder. If you’re going to crib something, at least go for something that hasn’t been touched for awhile.