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Im new, and wonder why we don't see more reposting (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThatMagickBastard@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It seems like these communities are a lot more focused on original content than reddit somehow, unless i'm missing something. Like, Mastodon seems to have loads of bots reposting stuff straight from twitter. I guess i'm wondering why i don't see more reddit content bots, or shameless reposts. Is it to save server space? Is it just faux pas?

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I guess a repost can be useful to add content to a relevant community and provoke discussion there (eg, something posted on a David Lynch community would be of interest to a Twin Peaks community.

Not if it's for karma-whoring of course, but does Lemmy even lend itself to that? I'm new, so I can't really say but it doesn't seem like it so far.

[–] Ghast@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I should clarify that there's no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.

Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that's just an intuition.

[–] TheGayDude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I should clarify that there’s no karma, because there are very few users.

No, theres no karma because we dont need that stupid system on Lemmy

[–] spicydogleg@toot.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree the amount of good content that gets missed thanks to people reposting the same content for worthless internet points is shocking

[–] TheGayDude@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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