Programming

I don't like the idea. It seems like those fake websites that scrape stackoverflow and SEO to ruin Google search. Avoiding those sites are among the reasons people type "reddit" into searches. People want authentic interactions and I think mirroring reddit into Fediverse lacks authenticity and undermines its authenticity. Content here should be from people who are here.

If someone wants to assimilate content from reddit into something new and post it here that's good. That means the person is here and can be interacted with.

If someone wants to repost their own content here, that's also fine. They are here to interact with.

I just really think it's a bad idea to deliberately build a ghost town and think people will move in.

That already exists. I personally think we should just continue where most of us left off on Reddit and don't bother about it.

lemmit.online already has this and I blocked the communities of that instance because I don’t want Reddit content…I want Lemmy content.

If you do decide to do it, use a bot specific instance with bot specific communities. Don’t flood existing communities with bot content.

Why should someone switch when the content is the same but you cannot reach the OP? In fact you would need to go to reddit to reach the OP! I think this would drive people back to reddit.

IMO it's better to do that manually with hand selected posts so that it's less spammy

Not directly/automatically, no. But I personally don't see anything wrong with the same article being reported on HackerNews, Slashdot, Reddit and Lemmy; that's just similar sites doing similar sitey things.

There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/... .
I don't want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.

~Hopefully~ ~the~ ~community~ ~will~ ~grow~ ~naturally~ ~to~ ~a~ ~point~ ~where~ ~it~ ~can~ ~satisfy~ ~my~ ~doom-scrolling~ ~addiction.~

At such scale, a scraper wouldn't be necessary, that's easily doable by humans involved in these communities—with a human touch as well.

I personally find those scraped posts annoying in other communities. First the formatting looks ugly in the list view. Second it just feels awkward to even interact with such a post, especially if it's a question where the real content is in the comment section on reddit.

It would normalize bot submissions, which is bad for a lot of reasons. Not the least, disproportional bot activity is one of the categories used for defederation for instances like lemm.ee.

i dont think so, you’d get posts at the speed / scale of reddit, but the comments would still be subject to the small lemmy community