Why are we copying over so much Reddit content?
I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me.
I can kind of see it if a Reddit mod decides to move their forum from there to here, and wants to start with their existing content, but otherwise I'm not sure this is a good thing.
What do you guys think?
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You have to jump-start communities. Copying is a simple way to do it.
The importance of jump starting can't be understated. Most people will go to the community that has content. If a community is empty, a lot of people won't even start participating in it. Plenty of people who make posts want them to be discussed, so they're only looking for active communities.
I think I have a bit of a bias against trying to make Lemmy a copy of Reddit, but I also feel like it doesn't make sense to copy old discussion threads. Someone asked a question on Reddit and got an answer. We don't need that duplicated here, in my opinion.
Again, i think a mod relocating their community is a different situation.
Although when I see such communities not having any replies to reddit share/RSS/bot on
Lemmycommunities`, work days or a week it starts to feel like that fire 🔥 isn't starting.Don't forget that the real migration has not even started, assuming there is going to be one - one week to go for that to begin.