Why would they leave their community with 99% of the people to move to a smaller inactive community that only has any action at all due to copying content from the site that they are already on?
Because then they would be interested in using the third party Lemmy apps and not the abomination that the Reddit one is.
It doesn’t make any sense!
And still Mastodon set-up a lot of repost bots when it started to attract people to the platform, by showing them they wouldn’t miss the content they wanted to see.
It also required Twitter going to crap, but Reddit seems to be following that trend.
Is it currently accomplishing its goal of bringing actual new users to Lemmy