I don’t get this logic. I don’t go to Reddit anymore so I don’t see the content unless someone reposts it here. I’m happy people are posting here, either way.
The tweet itself is from June of 2022. I know from my bot-hunting at the time that it was posted to Reddit within days of being tweeted, and that there were bots reposting it prior to the API changes less than a year ago. If you were browsing Reddit (or Twitter) at the time, then you may have seen it then.
I wouldn’t have minded seeing it shared here if there was not already a pattern of posts being copy+pasted from the top of the Lego subreddit for a given day. If the Lemmy OP had posted this two days ago or if they had posted it a month from today, I wouldn’t have associated the post with the Reddit post from yesterday. It’s that the content is being “farmed” in a way which bothers me. The case of this Lemmy post is made worse by the sourced Reddit post being made by a repost bot, which is exactly what I wanted to escape from by leaving Reddit.
I recognized this image since I had seen it posted on Reddit by the bots on multiple occasions a couple years ago as I was an avid bot hunter at the time, and I know the patterns of how the Lemmy OP gets much of their content to post (commonly the top posts of the current day/week of the analogous subreddit). It was a simple matter of locating the Reddit bot’s post among recent posts and verifying that the Reddit OP is a repost bot. I had seen the post content numerous times prior to seeing it on Lemmy, and the post content was sourced from a Reddit repost bot.
Question for you: how are we going to attract people to Lemmy communities such as this one if all we have to offer is communities with a few OC posts and nothing else? You need content to attract content, nobody (except I guess “repost bots” like me) likes to post to empty or inactive communities.
Lemmy has a content problem, we all would like to have only OC content here, but that’s not going to happen magically.
This picture is a screenshot from Twitter, so it wasn’t even “OC” when it was first posted on Reddit.
Finally, comments like you just demotivates people like me who try to keep this community and others active. Quoting the second rule of this community
2 Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
Looking back on your posts on this community, I do realize that I was a little quick to judge. Many, but in fact not all, of your image-based posts on this community are just reposts from what was top-rated from the Lego subreddit that day/week.
The reason many have left Reddit is because of the bots that repeatedly just repost top posts, which is not what I want to see here. I don’t see how you can attract an audience by giving them exactly what they would otherwise get from your competitor. In your methodology, you’re not only offering the same content, but you’re also offering the same audience deterrent in the form of copy+pasting top posts. This approach is functionally identical to Reddit’s repost bots.
I would suggest that you draw from more varied sources, rather than just what was top on the Lego subreddit at the moment. If you have no OC and you want to post, there are other sources for Lego content. You can draw from Eurobricks, BrickLink MOCs, Rebrickable, and other social media such as Instagram, YouTube, or Flickr. Even obscure and underrated posts on Reddit (even old ones) can help to demonstrate to a potential audience that we have what none of our competitors have on their own. I do see that you have on occasion drawn from some of these various sources in the past, but I think a more diverse and esoteric pool is what would interest people. People aren’t going to leave Reddit just to see a sliver of what they would go to Reddit for.
As for this particular post, I wouldn’t have minded seeing it shared if there was not already a pattern of posts being copy+pasted from the top of the Lego subreddit for a given day. I don’t want to go to Lemmy just to be late to the Reddit party. The post being a Twitter screenshot doesn’t matter as it’s not an issue of who made what here, but a matter of rehashing; I’d liken it to the Buzzfeed articles or YouTube content farms that copy several Reddit posts/comments and turn them into content for their own media. The case of this Lemmy post is made worse by the sourced Reddit post being made by a repost bot, which is exactly what I wanted to escape from by leaving Reddit.
Another technique of recruiting new users may be through posting direct links to content that is a “Lemmy exclusive” of sorts. For example, posting a link on Reddit to somebody’s OC Lemmy post, or tweeting “Found this cool build on lemmy.world/c/lego!”.
As a (typically) OC poster in this community, I feel demotivated to post OC that would have to compete against the “farmed” content which has proven successful.
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