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Why is it frowned upon here to 'steal' content from reddit? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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If anything, shouldn't it be encouraged, and even automated? I'm including even the 'old' stuff from reddit here. Reddit shouldn't be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users. When I migrated here, it wasn't because of me being against reddit users, but being against reddit the company. Copying the content here actually hurts the company in sense that they don't get to then gatekeep the crowdsourced content.

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[โ€“] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

This is correct. It's worth noting that there are some communities that it's probably fine for. If you're posting news, memes or gifs, it doesn't matter where they come from and it's a much different thing than posting a question. But there are reams of bot-posted content in discussion communities that have zero comments and end up reducing engagement when people see all those.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I don't see it that way. I think it's also a problem with meme posts being automatically copied over. I really like the engament and like to interact with the community. Reading and writing comments is why I'm on a forum style website. And I wrote A LOT of them

    This is my 500th comment on this account alone. I had a few others before settling on this one and I also was pretty active on reddit with over 100.000 Karma most of it in comment karma

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm also a prolific commentor. I'm unlikely to comment on something like an AITA post that was copied from elsewhere by a bot, but that hesitation doesn't apply if it's like a news item or a meme. Maybe if there are suddenly hundreds in a row I'd be less likely.

    Even on Reddit, much of that kind of content originated on Facebook, Twitter, or whatever.

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