Engagement is what makes or breaks a social media platform, especially in it’s early days.

Right now, anything that boosts engagement is 100% good IMO. that will help retain users and attract more.

Honestly yes I think it makes sense to do this, as long as the content itself isn’t hosted on reddit. It would be cool if somebody could make a bot for mods to enable this in their communities to specify subs to pull posts from and how often.

I think it could be worth for the more news related subs to maybe use bots that pull at least the more upvoted submissions until they’ve got a more solid user base that submits more stuff themselves. Reposting the same old Reddit reposts from 15 years ago however I think is not worth it.

It’s a good idea but honestly I am already enjoying the lemmy-unique content a lot more.

It’s normal, Reddit (and Lemmy and kbin) is link aggregrator.

Reddit was all about reposting content. Whether it was from news sites or twitter, it was full of it. There’s no reason why that couldn’t be done here. Especially in early days.

I’m already happy with the content here and actually a bit lost with all the variety of content, instances, new communities, links. No great need to look back. But if you need to find equivalent communities, lookie here: https://sub.rehab/

I’m of two minds about it. On one hand it would give Lemmy users more content to interact with which is good, on the other you’re directing to where we just came from and increasing engagement there which is bad. So I’m on the fence. If someone wants to do it it’s worth the experiment IMO, but I’m largely not going to be clicking that Reddit link unless its compelling. If it’s linked to an external site aside from reddit I’m all for it though, so long as it doesn’t get out of hand.

@zephyr

It’s more than OK for me.

It’s necessary for some important information and guides that would otherwise be destroyed on Reddit, we have to bring these informative posts and guides here.