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Why are we bring reddit content over? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by n0cturnali to c/asklemmy

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Basically title. That stuff getting reposted here isn't going to get half as much attention or traction. It's in the past, why not concentrate on the new stuff?

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[–] ilex 2 points 2 years ago

This is an aggregation site. Reddit has the information we want. It's like Wikipedia or a news website.

Oh, you mean Reddit as a cultural phenomenon. I was thinking as an information hub. As a general rule of the internet, if something is good enough, it will escape containment from wherever it was originally posted and into a new community.

It's like memes of Twitter posts. I've never been on Twitter - I wait for posts to reach critical velocity to escape containment.