Im new, and wonder why we don't see more reposting
Im new, and wonder why we don't see more reposting
It seems like these communities are a lot more focused on original content than reddit somehow, unless i'm missing something. Like, Mastodon seems to have loads of bots reposting stuff straight from twitter. I guess i'm wondering why i don't see more reddit content bots, or shameless reposts. Is it to save server space? Is it just faux pas?
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Why make a repost in the first place? Karma? Influence? You'll find neither in this dark, empty, wasteland.
But it'll pick up on Monday, and I'm sure we'll be swarming with more bots than you can shake a Turing test at before long.
I guess a repost can be useful to add content to a relevant community and provoke discussion there (eg, something posted on a David Lynch community would be of interest to a Twin Peaks community.
Not if it's for karma-whoring of course, but does Lemmy even lend itself to that? I'm new, so I can't really say but it doesn't seem like it so far.
I should clarify that there's no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.
Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that's just an intuition.
Ah, I was misunderstanding, I thought you meant reposting between Lemmy communities, rather than reposting from Reddit. Agreed that that seems like a bad idea (and won't help with getting people to commit to Lemmy).
I don't think there's much need to repost between communities. Click on the main page, and you can see "| Subscribed | Local | All |", and in 'all' you'll be able to see other Lemmy instances and interact with those communities without making an account there.
I'm not sure if you can make posts on another instance though...
There is a crosspost feature for these situations, I've seen some using it properly and some using it to spam but hopefully we can discourage the latter somehow.
People also repost for general attention, not just to see a fake number go up. Have you ever seen youtube comment sections?