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Thoughts on external cross-posting? (burggit.moe)

submitted 1 year ago by MikaGoesDown@burggit.moe to c/askburggit@burggit.moe

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What is the community’s stance on cross-posting from other sites? Either via direct link or screenshot/recording?

For example, it might be bad taste to create posts which are just links to Reddit threads. At the same time, discouraging posts which are just links to YouTube videos seems a little silly. Of course, you can come up with many grey-areas between these two examples.

Personally, I don’t want to follow links to Reddit because that place is a disaster. That being said, funny things are posted to that site and I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t laugh at a screenshot of such a thing posted here.

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[–] talozazz@burggit.moe 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't care for it.

People think the "content" of Reddit is the submissions that are made, but that's not actually that true at all. When people pointed out their ability to get information using search engines degraded due to widespread comment blackouts and protests on Reddit, it wasn't because the submissions were inaccessible, but because the individual comments and chained discussions that became inaccessible.

Cross-posting from Reddit brings over the submission, but not the comments or discussions related to the submission, and ultimately that is what should be of interest.

Sure there's not a lot of conversations here in general, but I can 100% assure you cross-posting to bring submissions over here is not going to generate much more.

[–] MikaGoesDown@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, most of what makes reddit interesting are the comments; but I don't know to what extent that I agree that reddit submissions are not "content" at all. Would posting screengrabs of content on Reddit (or TikTok or Threads or...) be necessarily undesirable? Why not look at the same content but generate our own comments and chained discussion?