Comment on An alternative perspective on Alien.top and the Fediverser project
rglullis@communick.news 11 months agoCrossposts are useless because the communities are not interactive.
That is simply not true. Even if you put aside that most people are lurkers first, mirrored posts work as a way to bootstrap conversation between real people.
There is also value in mirroring content simply because it makes it searchable and indexable in the Fediverse, away from Reddit control.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
But it doesn’t bootstrap conversation properly, because some OP on an entire other website is asking for help, and we’re talking to brick walls.
Lemmy is more helpful for Linux help than reddit is anyways, because on reddit they’ll tell you to fuck off and search, while on Lemmy I can still get hands-on support with a willing community.
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
That’s still useful. I found myself lurking a ton of subreddits recently looking for buildapcsales or laptopdeals. Then once I bought them I started lurking threads for people who had similar problems as me setting it up. I still find myself adding Reddit to the front of my Google searches when I want responses or reviews from real people about stuff. I even had to reinstall the Reddit app at some point to look at something, which was annoying, but I wanted the info. I wish I could do that with Lemmy instead.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Thank you for your comment
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Two-way communication is on the way. The main issue I am facing it needs to be done in a way that gets approval from the Lemmy user and I still figuring out if I should do this flow from the fediverser instance or from the “general” fediverser.network site.
Until this is not solved, I can tell you that any response that I have to a Reddit user, I respond on Lemmy and I trigger a script that sends the message to Reddit as well. (Example.)
I’ve also have sent tens if not hundreds of DMs to people on Reddit with a link to corresponding Lemmy thread, telling them about how they can join and even to participate. Not all of them respond of course, but the positive response rate is surprisingly higher than I expected.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
The example here is impressive