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I sin and still use reddit. Lately I've seen an increase of users there suggesting them to come here when unpopular changes are happening to reddit. Those comments are normally quite high up with a lot of discussion surrounding it so I assume it is attracting some of them to come here. When this place has enough content for my feed I'll eventually ditch reddit but in the meantime I'll still use both.
i actually believe lemmy should cross post to reddit, just so redditors can get exposure to lemmy. I got banned off of reddit years ago so I have little idea whats going on over there, i just see on lemmy that reddit has used ai based bots for moderating. I'm pretty much thinking of niche things to build up to help produce more content
I disagree. I tried to cross post to the silos for 11 years https://jeena.net/notes/1 and I couldn't move anyone to an alternative platform. Cross posting only legitimizes the other platform and gives them free content to exploit.
Idk how you exploit content. It's ussually the creators that get exploited. The idea is you put the content out there and put an impression on people so eventually they start thinking about them think about comming to Lemmy. I got nothing if you don't want to support x or twitter by crossposting from Lemmy.
I still say Lemmy/fediverse needs to build more niches community's up more than it needs to market so that way people stick around or engage more, so people don't drop off the platform from boredom
And I'm saying after cross posting for years nobody cares and they are all happy to read your posts on Musks or Zuckerbergs platform surrounded by ads and making those billionaires even richer.
Those people will not switch as long as you put the content conveniently there, there is no incentive for them. And even once you stop they still will not move from there because it's just too convenient to not move.
I for one don't want to put more money into billionaires pockets, therefore I'm advocating against cross posting automatically.
I know Instagram puts it's content on Facebook to get people to sign up for Instagram. I know they're both meta.
It's pretty intrusive, but it's evidence that it works.
But I'm more on the lines of make more features
On my feed I don't see much that could be crossposted to reddit. Lemmy has it's own culture which probably clashes somewhat with reddit. The best thing imo is creating content within lemmy's quieter communities. I do now and then but I'm not a massive poster or commentor.