It seems like these communities are a lot more focused on original content than reddit somehow, unless i’m missing something. Like, Mastodon seems to have loads of bots reposting stuff straight from twitter. I guess i’m wondering why i don’t see more reddit content bots, or shameless reposts. Is it to save server space? Is it just faux pas?

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    I guess a repost can be useful to add content to a relevant community and provoke discussion there (eg, something posted on a David Lynch community would be of interest to a Twin Peaks community.

    Not if it’s for karma-whoring of course, but does Lemmy even lend itself to that? I’m new, so I can’t really say but it doesn’t seem like it so far.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      There is a crosspost feature for these situations, I’ve seen some using it properly and some using it to spam but hopefully we can discourage the latter somehow.

    • Ghast@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I should clarify that there’s no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.

      Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that’s just an intuition.

      • TheGayDude@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I should clarify that there’s no karma, because there are very few users.

        No, theres no karma because we dont need that stupid system on Lemmy

        • Spicydogleg@toot.io
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          I agree the amount of good content that gets missed thanks to people reposting the same content for worthless internet points is shocking

          • TheGayDude@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            “Female humans of reddit with big boobs: whats the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed with a big dick epok gamer in your pussying pussy?”