All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?

  • GreasyTengu@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You could dedicate a community to reddit reposts easy enough. If people want to see the stuff from reddit they can sub, if they would rather wash their hands of reddit they can ignore it or block it.

  • toofarapart@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I think the community is much more important than just having more content. I would worry that by flooding Lemmy with Reddit’s content without the community to support that content could drown everyone out.

    • PotjiePig@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I agree. I think being able to tweak a personalised scraper as an opt in service per community could work. Some subs just won’t work for this, like askreddit and Eli5, but niche communities, news communities and information communities. I would be happy just seeing the top 2 or 3 posts of the day for some, and for world news for example, only the posts that pass a certain threshold of upvotes in a certain time or against the subs size, to make sure the real news pops up quick.

  • ShoePaste@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Nah. This is a fresh start. It’s been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It’ll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit

  • Poiar@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    It’d be kind of nice to play catch up a bit with the, what, 18 years of content on Reddit

    I know it might feel soulless, but having a constant stream of “pre-approved” content isn’t the worst idea

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    I’m not entirely against the idea, but also really don’t want to turn the fediverse into the flood of content that is reddit. Maybe some kind of relative upvote filter based bot. Only posts that get some certain percentage of above average number for a given sub, get scraped.

  • withersailor@aussie.zone
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    2 years ago

    Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it’s spammy it’ll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.