Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account.
However, now that's old news, and my account is totally gone.
I won't miss it really, I like Lemmy a lot more.
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There needs to be a script, that moves each of your reddit comment over to Lemmy and edits the reddit comment with a link to the lemmy post
I have already seen bots that are moving complete reddit subs to their respective communities. It's really annoying, because there's no actual engagement whatsoever
It’s a compromise; the discussions aren’t lost, Reddit doesn’t get to have the data anymore, but like you said, there’s no engagement. The engagement needs to occur over here with new topics, possibly linking back to the copied old ones.
I agree, reddit gets most of their traffic from the engagement surrounding the latest shitposts and low-effort memes. (Or just genuine community content if you prefer)
Months old posts are hardly relevant to large scale user engagement and it's unlikely that the one user trying to solve a problem by visiting a years old thread is going to have much of an impact.
If people are going to move away from the site in a healthy manner, they need to realise for themselves that it's time to move on. Better to have a bunch of hopeful and curious people looking for new opportunities rather than bitter and resentful users which are going to vent their frustration elsewhere.
Finally some sane voice. People don't seem to think 2cm in front of their nose.
But I wanna fuck over my reddit IPO >:(
And if the user deletes it, at least archive it beforehand on archive.org.
Yeah and then they get unhappy with reddit and find Lemmy. :)
It won't if people remain on reddit. :)
I tried a few times already searching for somewith with lemmy like
[technical issue] lemmyor
[technical issue] [instance]Guess how many results came up from that...The SEO right now is shit for those instances and discoverability. Searching for reddit will currently will not even mention something to lemmy or similiar.
Which query did you run?
I did "Lemmy neovim" and finding good results on Kagi:
https://kagi.com/search?q=Lemmy+neovim+&r=se&sh=0osxUy85wg5qQMQB0n_Zvg
A huge number of people who read reddit posts aren't actually reddit users. Reddit has become just as important a repository of internet knowledge as Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. If you're having trouble with software or something technical, the information on Reddit is invaluable.
That information does not exist on Lemmy Lemmy as an alternative when it comes to that information that already exists in the world is not a viable alternative.
The best possible thing that people moving to Lemmy can do is leave their comment and post history up, but continue to provide good answers to questions here on Lemmy. Eventually the knowledge on Reddit will be here or outdated enough to fade into obscurity.