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Why are there no bots that post Reddit content on Lemmy?
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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We need to build communities here, but that takes time. What I have personally seen is that many niche communities that are on Reddit just fail with Lemmy. (I suspect that most of that is because of the lack of algorithmic boosting.)
I am not saying cross posting from Reddit is a bad thing, btw. It's my personal preference to read actual user content where I can interact with OP. It's highly likely that "fake" content just doesn't pull my dopamine triggers the same way, s'all.
Content is here, but it's generated at a much slower pace. Honestly, that is much more healthy for me.
Niche communities fail because 99% of users are not posters and there are too few posters and users on Lemmy in general. You need content for people to move to Lemmy. They will never move to a dead Lemmy community (unless they are ideologically motivated). It will never happen in a hundred years.
Yep. It takes a ton of work and time to build a community that will attract more people who generate content.
With every shit move that Reddit pulls, it pushes more people to Lemmy. While I have zero intentions of being as active on Lemmy as I was on Reddit, I have still racked up a couple thousand comments or so over the last year. Even that interaction generates content, but it's still only a tiny contribution.
TBH, I just shifted what kind of content I consumed. That did come at the price of doing without some types for the time being. However, the interaction with other users is generally much better here. Many people stay here on Lemmy because of that and honestly, I feel that is a much better experience.
What I am saying is that Lemmy is getting bigger, but it will probably take another five or so years to get the momentum Reddit had ten years ago. It'll happen because it's just a matter of time before Reddit is purely investor driven and all value is completely extracted. (It's just like how Facebook is mostly for old people now.)