Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?
It’s normal, Reddit (and Lemmy and kbin) is link aggregrator.
I’m of two minds about it. On one hand it would give Lemmy users more content to interact with which is good, on the other you’re directing to where we just came from and increasing engagement there which is bad. So I’m on the fence. If someone wants to do it it’s worth the experiment IMO, but I’m largely not going to be clicking that Reddit link unless its compelling. If it’s linked to an external site aside from reddit I’m all for it though, so long as it doesn’t get out of hand.
I think that the situation being described isn’t linking to Reddit, but linking to what Reddit is linking to.
Honestly yes I think it makes sense to do this, as long as the content itself isn’t hosted on reddit. It would be cool if somebody could make a bot for mods to enable this in their communities to specify subs to pull posts from and how often.
Reddit was all about reposting content. Whether it was from news sites or twitter, it was full of it. There’s no reason why that couldn’t be done here. Especially in early days.
Engagement is what makes or breaks a social media platform, especially in it’s early days.
Right now, anything that boosts engagement is 100% good IMO. that will help retain users and attract more.
I don’t have a problem with it. Although, I do think “sublemmy” is a stupid word, and we should just say “community”.
In short, copying Reddit’s content is fine. Copying Reddit’s terminology is silly.
