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It seems like these communities are a lot more focused on original content than reddit somehow, unless i'm missing something. Like, Mastodon seems to have loads of bots reposting stuff straight from twitter. I guess i'm wondering why i don't see more reddit content bots, or shameless reposts. Is it to save server space? Is it just faux pas?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why make a repost in the first place? Karma? Influence? You'll find neither in this dark, empty, wasteland.

But it'll pick up on Monday, and I'm sure we'll be swarming with more bots than you can shake a Turing test at before long.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess a repost can be useful to add content to a relevant community and provoke discussion there (eg, something posted on a David Lynch community would be of interest to a Twin Peaks community.

Not if it's for karma-whoring of course, but does Lemmy even lend itself to that? I'm new, so I can't really say but it doesn't seem like it so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is a crosspost feature for these situations, I've seen some using it properly and some using it to spam but hopefully we can discourage the latter somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should clarify that there's no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.

Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that's just an intuition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I should clarify that there’s no karma, because there are very few users.

No, theres no karma because we dont need that stupid system on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree the amount of good content that gets missed thanks to people reposting the same content for worthless internet points is shocking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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