DogMuffins, 2 years ago

Cross-post bots are not the way to build a community.

Imagine signing up and finding that all the posts are just cross-posts from reddit with barely any engagement.

One of the main things I despise about this concept is that it provides an implication that lemmy is some kind of budget-reddit. As though, all the good content is on reddit but we’re all camped out here on lemmy.

The way to build a community is to simply post more.

To respond to your other comment here also:

I’m working on two-way communication. Responses to a mirrored comment here will trigger a notification to the original reddit poster and a comment to the reddit thread linking to the lemmy conversation.

Would this even be allowed on reddit? Surely from the perspective of a reddit mod / admin this would just be spam?

the initial posts are enough to foster a discussion between people on Lemmy

That’s not my experience. I’ve only ever seen dozens of cross posts with no comments.