Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?
I don’t have a problem with it. Although, I do think “sublemmy” is a stupid word, and we should just say “community”.
In short, copying Reddit’s content is fine. Copying Reddit’s terminology is silly.
Engagement is what makes or breaks a social media platform, especially in it’s early days.
Right now, anything that boosts engagement is 100% good IMO. that will help retain users and attract more.
I only do it in the other direction; cross post lemmy originals to the sinking ship.
Of course, when the lemmy post links to a video or article, the reddirt post will only link to the lemmy post and not directly to the content.
It’s a way of helping others abandon ship, which indirectly adds content for us in the long run.
I’m of two minds about it. On one hand it would give Lemmy users more content to interact with which is good, on the other you’re directing to where we just came from and increasing engagement there which is bad. So I’m on the fence. If someone wants to do it it’s worth the experiment IMO, but I’m largely not going to be clicking that Reddit link unless its compelling. If it’s linked to an external site aside from reddit I’m all for it though, so long as it doesn’t get out of hand.
I think that the situation being described isn’t linking to Reddit, but linking to what Reddit is linking to.
