Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rglullis@communick.news⁩ to ⁨electronics@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

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According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I’m seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news

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breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Mirroring reddit posts is so incredibly annoying

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The point is not just to mirror posts, it’s also to create a clear migration path for people who are still using reddit because the niche communities have not achieved critical mass here.
  
  Besides, those who are on lemmy.world have nothing to worry about because the LW admins have defederated from alien.top.
  
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  - DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Cross-post bots are not the way to build a community.
    
    Imagine signing up and finding that all the posts are just cross-posts from reddit with barely any engagement.
    
    One of the main things I despise about this concept is that it provides an implication that lemmy is some kind of budget-reddit. As though, all the good content is on reddit but we’re all camped out here on lemmy.
    
    The way to build a community is to simply post more.
    
    To respond to your other comment here also:
    
    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.
    
    Would this even be allowed on reddit? Surely from the perspective of a reddit mod / admin this would just be spam?
    
    the initial posts are enough to foster a discussion between people on Lemmy
    
    That’s not my experience. I’ve only ever seen dozens of cross posts with no comments.
    
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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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xoggy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Rather than mirror reddit posts here, you can set up a dedicated community for that so people that want that kind of thing can get it. No need to kill an existing community further.

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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s exactly what I am doing for lots of communities that have no reddit equivalent, and what I did for !main@selfhosted.forum when it was clear that !selfhosted@lemmy.world was already somewhat active. Regarding these, go take a look at the usage numbers for both, tell me which is going up and which is going down…
  
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Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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- jonno@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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- rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I am giving you real data: the communities where the mirrors are active end up with more organic activity than those without.
  
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  - Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Interesting. I’ve mostly seen communities overwhelmed with bot posts and 0 replies, but I haven’t taken any statistics.
    
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linker3000@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Interesting comments all round. Let’s run with the discussion for a week to allow infrequent visitors a chance to comment and then see if there’s a strong trend towards a specific opinion.

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nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I greatly prefer the occasional original post with actuall engagement to a flood of reposts. If I want reddit posts, I will go on reddit (and also get comments and things like that). On a more meta level, the only way a community can gain and retain users is by offering unique content. If 99% of content is just content from Reddit (with missing comments), why should anyone bother to use Lemmy?

Subscribing to a comunity does not cost anything, very few people will leave a community because it is dead, but people will leave a community that spams their feed.

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linker3000@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
After 9 days, the upvotes and downvotes are tied so nothing changes for now, but we can revisit later.

Personally, I’d prefer organic growth rather than reposting stuff from Reddit.

Spread the word about the sub!

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