Genuine question.

There are tons of niche subs on Reddit that aren’t on Lemmy or don’t have enough people posting. Lemmy could benefit from bots that automatically post Reddit content. Why is this not a thing?

    • doodledup@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      Most people including me don’t care about where the content is posted. I just want the content and a good app to view the content. This is the real reason why nobody is moving from Reddit to Lemmy eventhough Reddit sucks.

      Besides, there is no such thing as “Reddit content” or “Lemmy content”. 99% of content posted on Lemmy isn’t original either. Articles, videos, news, etc. are all crossposted from somewhere else on the internet. Lemmy is a content aggregator and community forum, nothing more.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Reddit has more content. And arguably, more content that is actually important. It has this advantage over Lemmy because Reddit is older.

      If bots can bring the important information over to Lemmy, then that will make Lemmy more valuable. None of the anti-bot users are lining up to manually do all that work themselves.

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        3 months ago

        Reddit has more content. And arguably, more content that is actually important

        That much is obvious, but Reddit also has so many reposts it’s not even funny

        Also there’s a lot of trash on Reddit too

        Comparing it percentage wise would be a fairer comparison, and imo the average post quality on Lemmy is so much higher than on Reddit. Wich would mean if you start bringing over Reddits content, you would automatically lower Lemmys average post quality