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this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Maybe invest some time in learning the culture of a community here before force injecting a reddit spam feed into it?
why even bother running a community?
2 years with no posts - who is this for?
Its a user volume issue. Reality is, Lemmy just isnt at scale like Reddit in users. Comment, post, vote - make it active. Give people a reason to stick around and engage.
But I'd agree i dont want a bot just funneling Reddit to Lemmy. Im here, rather than Reddit, by intent
its a chicken and the egg issue - no content no users. give them at least content and then users will come
I'm not here for content. I'm here for interaction. Repost bots are all noise no signal from that perspective. Similarly a thousand users who lurk are less important to me than a single user who remembers me across threads (probably as "that guy who doesn't believe in [linear time | disbanding the Electoral Collage | Ohio being part of the Midwest | the superiority of the metric system]").
I’m not here for content. I’m here for interaction.
oh my lord. people - if there is no content, there is not going to be people to interact with.
its that simple
chicken and the egg - solve the egg problem and you will get the chicken.
You keep asserting this in the face of multiple people telling you otherwise. That doesn't mean you're wrong — but it certainly doesn't mean you're right, either.
im not alone, many people say they are lemmy native, but just have separate accounts and use reddit. thats ok.
Did you reach out to the mod? Maybe they would welcome help.
I did indeed. no response
!selfhosted@lemmy.world
As for the auto sync, no one here wants that. There have been entire instances dedicated to that, they were highly defederated.
Im sure many people want that. I dont want empty communities - thats why lemmy is stuck in tiny userbase without any growth.
explain it to me - what purpose is a community with last post 2 years ago? Why does it even exist if noone uses it?
A community full of bot posted reddit content is still, for all intents and purposes, an empty community.
I tried setting up a bot to auto-post from an rss feed for sports stuff a few years back, and it made a lot of people very unhappy and got my bot banned pretty quick. Nocturne is right— there honestly just isn’t demand for bot-posted content; people would rather nothing than automated posting 🤷♂️
im sorry - but im dead set on leaving reddit. if they want to ban me -its their call, I will create my own instance - thats the topic here
I definitely think your own instance is the right move here, and you can post whatever you want to your own instance. I don't want you to hear me saying "you shouldn't do this," but instead hear me saying "please don't be offended when you find your efforts are not well received."
If I wanted to see Reddit content then I would go to Reddit.
This is a shit idea, IMO. I actively block such content.
but I cannot use reddit without ads - they started blocking on mobile.
at least on lemmy - we could see all reddit content without reddit ads
Reddit has ads?
RedReader(Android app, FOSS, in f-droid and play store) has no advertisements.
You can use Firefox or Microsoft Edge to get extension support(ublock.) there's other options as well. Via(Android) is really lightweight and has built in adblocking.
Theres oldlander extension for old.reddit.com.
You can also use the ublock element picker to filter the mobile pop up... Or clear your cookies (or disable them in site settings.)
yes I was using Firefox with ublock. and they started showing unskippable switch to mobile app message:
look - I dont want to use reddit. thats the point. I want to ensure reddit goes digg way. I dont need it
You may want to look into the lemmit.online instance, it mirrors reddit content here and may already mirror the comms you’re looking for. Like another commenter said tho, many people have defederated or blocked it because a lot of us use the fediverse rather than reddit for a reason - so don’t be too surprised if you get a similar response.
I’m also not a fan of just mirroring reddit, but BAPC sales is one of the very few types of subreddit I can see being useful to mirror since it basically exists to be an rss feed and comments don’t provide as much value as usual. If you focus on comms like that maybe your instance would be less likely to be blocked?
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the plan is - siphon reddit content until lemmy community is big enough where it does not need that.
BAPC sales is one of the very few types of subreddit I can see being useful to mirror since it basically exists to be an rss feed and comments don’t provide as much value as usual.
rigggghhhttt!??!!?? their slogal is literally stolen from subreddit. wth
the plan is - siphon reddit content until lemmy community is big enough where it does not need that.
People have attempted this before. Like others have said, it didn’t really go well and a lot of people blocked those communities or have entire instances defederate from them. I think it was lemmynsfw (RIP) that thrived with mirrored content because, well, porn.
I’m still subscribed to communities that post via rss bots, but it’s for specific topics (i.e. tech, hackernews), not general content.
But hey, the beauty of the fediverse is you can do whatever you want on your own instance, so feel free to do it. Don’t be suprised though if not a lot of instances will choose to federate with you.
Why don't you use post on Lemmy? Reddit didn't have a lot of users either it started naturally.
Maybe post the links on reddit back to your instance on Lemmy and start getting engagement.
Reddit is bot and shit head garbage now. Nobody wants the majority of reddit here.
look - its ok. we dont need to argue. lets agree to disagree.
I will create my own instance
What does lemmy.world uses?
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You probably want !support@lemmy.world for that.
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