Why aren't we just stealing all of the top content from Reddit and posting it here?

DrTautology@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 116 points –

Reddit doesn't actually own any of the content, right? Neither do any of the contributors? Seems like a good way to fuck Reddit.

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There's just no need anymore. Lemmy has boomed, and we have our own content. Reddit is not really relevant anymore.

I mean, the content here lately is 15 year old memes.

A lot of the boom is people that were too lame to get karma on Reddit so they spam dumb things here now and get upvotes because everyone is still in “upvote everything to help the community” mode.

Admittedly I've blocked the meme communities in my feed - but that's not what I wanted from Reddit or I want from here.

Yes, only a few are left visible for me like programmerhumor because I enjoy those but the rest is just noise for me

I think you hit the nail on the head, but personally, I stopped upvoting “to help the community” a while ago. Lemmy seems to be doing fine now so I’m not against downvoting at all either.

The people upvoting those crappy 15 year old memes aren’t against downvoting either, because when I mentioned how terrible the memes were I got downvoted.

And before that it was beans. We have our own rich meme history

the only content on reddit is bots reposting shit... and Spez playing the sad trombone.

Steve is playing with his penis on the reddit front page? And he thinks anyone will pay for that? 🤣

I feel you. I still think it might be worth stealing what is worth stealing, if you know what I mean. There's definitely still good content creators over on Reddit.

I just checked Lemmy stats - how is it possible that we lost 400 000 users recently? If people check it out and leave for good, wouldn't that still be counted in the user base?

There were a bunch of fake accounts created, and there has been effort to remove them

Probably has a lot to do with the shitpost meme communities fucking up the feed. I’d bail too if I didn’t think that shit will dry up once the kids find something else to do.

On top of the other explanations, it's natural that many, if not most, who decide to check out alternatives don't stick around for various reasons.

  • They might not have found the right instance for them (or even realized they were supposed to).
  • They might not care enough about the new state of reddit to leave, after all.
  • The communities that kept them on reddit in the first place may not exist here so they have no incentive to stick around.
  • The bugs, growing pains, quirks, and rough UX might have outweighed perceived benefits.
  • They may have been put off by the model or culture for whatever personal/ideological reasons.
  • They might still be using fediverse platforms but isolated by fediblocks or by their own choice.

They may or may not reconsider in the future, or their usage of the internet may have changed entirely (so they're out of the game, so to speak).

We should just keep doing what we think is best for the kind of communities we want to see emerge and thrive here. Growth for its own sake is not helpful or valuable.

Maybe. I'm finding the Lemmy content and platform features lacking personally. Some of my favorite subs don't have an analogue here, and the clones here are significantly smaller and therefore have less content. I see great potential though, which is why I think "stealing" content is a sound strategy to grow. I find it interesting also, because there are two reasons people use Reddit: The content and the platform. One of those things isn't actually owned by Reddit. So Lemmy has the distinct advantage in that there is already a good platform in place, and all the good content of Reddit (and half of it's value) can be moved over here.