It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not super keen on repost bots. Lemmy doesn’t need to have what reddit has, it just needs to be a good content aggregator.

    Reposting from Reddit doesn’t bring anything new to the table and just sends people back to reddit.

    Side note but I’m not quite getting the comparison between bots on lemmy and OPs on Imgur. Imgur was initially created specifically to host images that people were going to post on Reddit because Reddit’s ability to host images was basically non-existent. It wasn’t originally supposed to be an alternative to Reddit, it was there to supplement Reddit.

    Lemmy is a completely separate thing from Reddit. Similar to how Reddit isn’t Digg, back when Digg did the same sort of “screw over the userbase” that Reddit is doing now.