I think it’s great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn’t seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I’m seeing discussion threads, which doesn’t make sense to me.

I can kind of see it if a Reddit mod decides to move their forum from there to here, and wants to start with their existing content, but otherwise I’m not sure this is a good thing.

What do you guys think?

  • n3m4c
    1•1 year ago

    Reddit was started as a link aggregator so there is nothing wrong with copying stuff from Reddit that was copied there from somewhere else anyway

    • AFK BRB ChocolateOP
      2•1 year ago

      As I said elsewhere, I wasn’t making an argument that it’s unethical, I just think it makes things worse, not better.

      • CoderKat
        1•1 year ago

        I don’t agree. So many fantastic subs are based on discussions with no links. HobbyDrama, BestOfRedditorUpdates, AskHistorians, ExplainItLikeImFive, TIFU, AmITheAsshole, etc.