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

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year 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.

  • toofarapart@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

  • Poiar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year 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

  • GreasyTengu@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

  • ShoePaste@lemmy.ml
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    1 year 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

  • Shrek@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.

  • atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.

  • Djokkum@rammy.site
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been toying with this idea at well. I don’t think it’s a good idea to scrape all content. This could drown out the lemmy-original content, especially when large subreddits are concerned. Maybe an upvote threshold (Only scrape if more than X upvotes) would be a good idea.

    I would also scrape only the post itself, not the comments. Best to have our own organic discussions here.

    Finally it should be very clear that a bot is posting these things. Ideally the bot would also ensure it is not re-posting something that was already posted by a Lemmy users just a bit earlier.