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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am working on a bot that clones posts from reddit to lemmy It's for a community that wants to have a backup on lemmy in case reddit goes to complete shit But wouldn't we this way end up with a lemmy that is full of shit from reddit?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehhhh there's pros and cons to that. r/all on any given day is just bots karma farming off eachother with maybe 1 or 2 good posts mixed in alongside the occasionally genuinely interesting news article, which obviously sucks.

But on the other side there is a TON of threads from the past decade that I know I still read once in a while and I'm sure others do too. Hell just yesterday I was looking for some info on mettalurgy and found a reddit thread where some guy asked my exact question and got good answers like 5 years ago. Having those be more accessible would be great... Plus a lot of niche communities are unfortunately just too small on Lemmy to produce the level of content they do on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I would love communities like r/asksience to thrive on Lemmy as it does on reddit, that's for sure.