I am giving you real data: the communities where the mirrors are active end up with more organic activity than those without.
Comment on Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here?
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
If there’s more activity on Reddit then here, then Reddit repost bots make it feel like all the community action is happening on Reddit. They push people back to Reddit because that’s where all the new posts are coming from, so why engage here if the active discussion is already in progress over there?
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Interesting. I’ve mostly seen communities overwhelmed with bot posts and 0 replies, but I haven’t taken any statistics.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Bit they’re giving you real data.
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
No, they made an assertion, without statistics or raw data to back it up. How many replies do cross-posts get, compared to regular posts? What’s the mean? What’s the median? Does the distribution look Gaussian, and if so what’s the standard deviation.
jonno@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Communities with >50% repost content are unsubscribed by me. If I have communities spamming my timeline with reposts, I just block em. Having to open at least two link and read the content on both sites just to get the info and understand the discussion/context is generally a huge waste of my time.