we are defederated from lemmit.online as the bots there was just far too much already but I’m curious about whether we should do the same for alien.top and or its sister instances (there’s a lot).
If you aren’t aware of what that is, it’s a site ran by another instance that mirrors reddit content over into ghost subs and mirrors the comments as well.
Personally? I’m not a fan. Like, at all. I understand the desire but I feel like its not only asking for Reddit to throw down with a legal fit but also feels just… annoying. We don’t need a critical mass of content, we need QUALITY content. More does not equal better.
Mirroring comments sounds awful and not worth engaging with.
Linking to Reddit also seems like a bad idea. If I wanted to engage with Reddit, I’d be on Reddit.
Cross-posting links that were popular on Reddit into relevant communities here seems like a fine idea, though. I DO want quality links here, and for discussion to grow organically around those links here, on Lemmy. For example, a community like !ebookdeals@literature.cafe is built around links. If there’s a similar active community on Reddit, I would indeed appreciate it if someone cross-posted the good deals here.
I think there is value in users cross-posting from Reddit, but bots doing it indiscriminately seems spammy, and could well destroy a community.