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Comment on Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here?

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I think mirroring questions and requests for help is a terrible idea, no one is going to want to answer a question here if most of them are mirrored and the original asker is not here to get the answer.

It’s frustrating to put out a well thought out answer then realize that the person who asked will never see it.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Your points are valid, but turns out that the practice is showing different results:

the original asker is not here to get the answer.

I’m working on two-way communication. Responses to a mirrored comment here will trigger a notification to the original reddit poster and a comment to the reddit thread linking to the lemmy conversation.

It’s frustrating to put out a well thought out answer then realize that the person who asked will never see it.

This is not what is happening at the selfhosted communities. Turns out that a lot of the initial posts are enough to foster a discussion between people on Lemmy already.

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- Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Personally, I’ve blocked most repost bots (as I see them), because of the above stated reasons. I know I’m just one data point in a statistic, but I’m one that comments, as opposed to one that just lurks.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    My main goals with this tool are:
    
    completely drop reddit without losing access to its content and the communities that are there.
    
    create a migration path for the people who are on reddit and don’t want to give it away because there is no real alternative.
    
    I’m also one that comments, I just don’t want to do that on reddit anymore. I want to be able to do that on Lemmy, and have the two-way bridge until the community here is self-sustainable. This is how I think this tool can be helpful.
    
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