Huge benefit for reddit mods stuck without an easy way to move their communities over
Mirroring Reddit threads discourages participation as the OP isn’t there and there’s little point in discussing with yourself.
Submitted 12 hours ago by heyakyra@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
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Huge benefit for reddit mods stuck without an easy way to move their communities over
Mirroring Reddit threads discourages participation as the OP isn’t there and there’s little point in discussing with yourself.
Already exists at lemmit.online. Many servers block it because it’s annoying. I use it to keep track of niche communities I left behind.
It’s been tried. It sounds like a good idea but all you get are a bunch of threads with no comments and an OP that can never reply.
There was even one that spun up a Lemmy acct for each reddit user that they could claim to ease the transition.
While a cool concept it was largely derided by the existing threadiverse users.
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Bot threads (from reddit, rss, or otherwise) rarely have any engagement and they end up just cluttering feeds with mostly shit
can@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
There are a few cases where it can be convenient but it’s rare and reserved for ones that act more like an rss feed. And I do subscribe to some of the similar rss feed mirroring communities/instances.