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  • Repost communities have been tried before, dozens of times. Literally every two weeks some new user comes along, thinks they are the first one to ever think of this idea, writes a bot and trashes all the feeds with whatever that guy thinks is cool.

    People don’t want any content, they want worthwhile content that they can engage with and have meaningful discussions about, not their whole feed spammed full with pure copy paste.


    Imagine you want to sell people on the concept of e-mail. There’s not a lot of messages going around, so you come along and say “People want more e-mails” and start spamming like crazy. “Here’s a hundred cat videos for you! There’s a few dozen chain emails for you! Here, take a few hundred messages from ‘hot singles in your area’!”

    Do you not understand the difference between good organic content and spam?



  • What do you think is more appealing?

    A subscribed feed with a few dozen posts about various meaningful topics with a few dozen comments, that were shared by an OP who cares about the subject, who replies to comments, and where there’s an actual community.

    Or

    A subscribed feed that’s flooded with hundreds of reposted memes by an OP who is essentially a bot, who doesn’t even know they (re)posted the memes and hardly any comments under the posts, because there are more posts than viewers.


    You don’t grow an user base by spamming so much garbage into it that it quenches every chance of a discussion and drowns out any posts about relevant topics.

    If I want an endless stream of copied memes with no community around it, I go to imgur.



  • Nope. Network effect happens if there’s a network. For that you need an adequate amount of eyes per post so that people can start commenting and discussing stuff with one another.

    Dump in hundreds of copy-posted memes without enlarging the user base and it does exactly the opposite of the network effect: With much more posts per viewer, the viewers are spread thin over the posts which means there are never enough people on one post to actually start a meaningful discussion in the comments.



  • The problem is that Reddit is many orders of magnitude larger than Lemmy. r/comics has 1.5 mio weekly visitors. All of Lemmy combined has just ~50k monthly visitors.

    One repost bot alone can swamp all of Lemmy, totally drowning out everything else. The biggest issue there is that it’s dead content. The thing that makes something like Reddit or Lemmy better than just a random webcomics feed is the comments. So if a ton of non-organic content gets reposted, that dilutes the comments too much meaning that people don’t actually see eachother’s comments any more and thus no discussions happen.