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Shall we embrace cross posting?

Shall we have links in our bios if we have accounts on both? Is anyone here actively using both at the same time? How's it going?

Any advocacy on the sub-reddits by cross posting lemmy threads/comments and maybe doing more?

Or we just ignore each other?

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[–] Aaron-Davis363@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I don't mind if there's no cross posting. I'm sure people of a particular instance and board will be able to generate and aggregate content just fine on their own.

[–] speck@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crossposting in a context of a platform rife with re-postings doesn't sound too appealing.

Repeat content in inevitable, of course. But on Reddit, it is accelerated because of the karma system, bots, and karma farming. The desire for more content and traffic in the fediverse is to improve the quality of experience for existing users and to make it more enticing to new ones joining. I would argue that is not the purpose of content generation on Reddit.

Maybe I'm muddying that aspect of the question, though.

[–] techno156@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Although cross-posting things from Reddit would help, by helping supply a stream of new content for users to talk about, while the community is small, and doesn't have that much to stay active.

The community is less enticing to new users if it seems "dead" because of a low number of infrequent posts.

[–] uint8_t@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

will cross posting to reddit even be possible with their API closure after end of June?

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

I think not. This is the kind of Reddit is trying to get rid of.

[–] techno156@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Manually, yes, but probably not if you intend on using a bot to do the same.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would at least give it some time. currently I don't want to give Reddit any traffic

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago

Agreed. But if you post a link to the website or article directly and not to reddit I think it can jump start activity here.

[–] spasm01@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I am attempting to stay off of deaddit myself, but sometimes its the only site that has the information I need. I do think repeating posts is a good idea

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Post on fediverse first, then screenshot it and share with other socials saying it's from lemmy or wherever in the headline. Maybe even say which community it's from. And it could be a watermark of some kind too.

The more people are aware of the fediverse communities, the more they might check it out and just leave reddit entirely.

[–] zachariah@mas.to 0 points 2 years ago

@CubitOom @maegul

@IceCubesApp has a built-in screenshot feature that’s great for this use.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

why not directly link to the Lemmy post as a source?

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[–] Newby@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

I think it should just be a personal choice. If you want to interact and reference reddit, great. If you want to stay off reddit, great.

[–] gingerrich@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Personally I'll be staying here and not going back to Reddit. I'd been winding down my use of Reddit recently anyway so the blackout was just the little push I needed to delete my account.

[–] somniumx@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I've begun over the past few months to curate my reddit to a point where there is no all, no popular, no hey you might like XYZ. On PC and in my app.
So I'm a bit annoyed that this has to start all over again. But it me good to start somewhere smaller and new, without algorithms that fuel your anger anyway.

[–] klinkertinlegs@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

Ditto. I was looking for a reason to bail from Reddit, then they gave me a really great one. I wanted out of my main account because it was my 1st+2nd initial and last name, and there was no way to change it. I didn't like that info being front and center. So I was looking for an out anyway

[–] JakeBacon@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I think ignoring is the wrong way to go for sure. Personally I un-installed my app for Lemmy but I might reinstall it.

The reason I might reinstall it is just to help improve Lemmy. For example, most of my news for League of Legends came from the subreddit and the Lemmy community I found is basically dead. So, if I want to help improve Lemmy I could look at reddit for the news and then repost it (linking the original source, not reddit).

Also, think about all the subreddits that make content from Twitter and Tumblr, it's possible some people will want to be on Reddit and Lemmy for the same reason.

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago

Exactly this. Lemmy is a little dead without content for us to comment on. I see no problem with reddit lurkers finding information and posting the original website's link. Like you said, social media is awash with reposts from other social media sites. I often joke with what new meme my wife may have found on FB that I saw it on reddit first.

[–] can@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've been waiting for someone to make a Curatedtumblr community. I think all the users actually left for Tumblr.

[–] maegul@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Well tumblr are supposed to come to the fediverse at some point. And they reportedly were receiving people from the Twitter migration.

[–] techno156@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

There does seem to be one if you search across all Lemmy communities, but it is dead and very tiny.

Some of the users might also have retreated to the discord server, since /r/CuratedTumblr had an official one, while others just went for tumblr directly.

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[–] Monkeyhog@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] vaguerant@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Reddshirts.

[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One of the most annoying things about Mastodon during the Twitter migration at the beginning of this year was that the only thing Mastodon wanted to talk about was "the Birdsite."

It sure would be nice if we could get through that phase of the Reddit migration at a vastly accelerated pace.

[–] SoupOfTheDay@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m fine with the site being a black sheep, but most of us are refugees. We are going to have growing pains and people will trickle/stream in over time. The best way to ensure the fedverse dies before living is to make talk about Reddit a taboo or a thing to ridicule. People are going to complain, just don’t engage and over time it’ll die out.

At the moment I personally welcome cross posting. I’m dying for content right now. Haven’t found a lot of mags to join. I would start some but I would be shit for modding or content creation.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

This is going to happen again in July when the 3PAs die. Allowing people to vent about reddit will make them more likely to want to spend more time here.

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[–] Cantstopthesignal@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Regardless of how everyone feels about Discovery, remember how the crew had to leave behind all their families, friends, and loved ones for the greater good when they were flung 1000 years into the future? I think that's us.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Regardless of how everyone feels about Discovery

You know what I haven't seen yet? Literally anyone complaining that Spock >!cried!< in the latest episode of SNW.

Keep that in mind next time you come across someone complaining about Burnham.

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[–] a_cat@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

OK I love this analogy XD

[–] astroturds@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

I'm proud to serve with you all

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

The Fediverse is Michael Burnham?

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[–] Aeonx@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Personally, my goal is to set aside the time to post or comment on the most interesting, informative, helpful tutorials that cannot be found here. To scrape reddit data via RSS and if it's interesting and not on lemmy or kbin see that it is mirrored here, so that it has the same plus more content. Getting lemmy and kbin results to show up in search results. If there is a way to improve the webui I would like to be part of it, if not the development part then at least the conversation. I'd donate $$s to make this place look and feel better than it does.

But posting on reddit...I had already stopped or reduced posting due to how often I was downvoted for not following the grain, or my replies not showing up or being deleted automatically. Some forums telling me I could not vote because my karma was too low but karma always getting deducted because I didn't think the same way as the majority subreddit. Here is the first time where I haven't been less afraid to speak...where I can be upvoted/downvoted and it doesn't even matter. Reddit is dead to me, and I will never cross-post interesting information to it except to say come join us in developing an alternative - and I can't even be bothered to do that.

[–] SparkIT@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL Reddit users have bios /s

[–] exscape@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Same but minus the sarcasm. Only been there for 15 years. I assume it's a "new reddit" thing.

[–] CoffeeNerd@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Personally, I don't want crossposts from a whole other site. At that point just copy their own link and post it here. Unless your goal is to give Reddit even more traffic. If we were just to copy (steal) their posts, it would be enough to keep me here.
I was on Reddit for news. Whether it's mechanical keyboards, monitors, anything tech really, a game I play, new homekit devices or a new protocol, Apple stuff, streaming stuff, movies, sports or regular news. Sure I also did google some odd questions from time to time that would lead me to Reddit but it was far from my primary purpose. So for kbin to be a viable solution I just need people to buy into this. To start posting here instead whenever something happens or releases within one of my hobbies.

For now I use both but I'm much less on Reddit. I used to read a book every other day but I've considerably slowed down within the past year so most of the time I used to spend on Reddit has been spent elsewhere this past week.

[–] Widget@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Probably depends on the sub.

On research and research-adjacent subs it's pretty common for the poster to make a text post with a link to a paper, quote the part of the abstract or conclusion that actually contains the new/important part, and then maybe add a bit of their own commentary about the significance or new questions it opens as well.

Those are the sorts of cross-posts I'd like to see. But if it's just a link or a meme, there's no real benefit.

[–] trekchu@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shall we embrace crossposting? -- Absolutely. Most content on Reddit is crossposted from god knows where. It's how sites like this work.

Shall we have links in our bios? -- Depends. I certainly won't-

Advocacy? -- I was never active enough over there to speak to that, but... up to you. I'm waiting to hear that speaking of alternatives has become a bannable offence.

Ignore?

-- I think that's wrong. See 1 as for why.

[–] aufsichtsrat@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago
[–] nonsense@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Are we the Romulans or are we the Vulcans?

[–] DuplexFields@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

Escaping to Romulus when the purported followers of Surak became rigid and demanding in their pursuit of an ordered technocratic society, to an intolerable degree. We leave the hallowed halls of our ancestors: their katras, their monuments, their desert cities. We arrive refugees, but here at least we can build a new republic where power is willingly shared.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Definitely the Vulcans.

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[–] leecheroflife@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

I am going to keep my reddit for the time being but try to see how I can go with using purely Lemmy, and learning how it all works.

If it becomes appropriate to mention in subreddits that this is a viable alternative, or there is already a parallel server, then I don't think there's harm in letting people know and letting them decide, I won't however be blatantly advertising it

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