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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I personally think links to something like Reddit make no sense, since one of the reasons for being on a site like Burggit or many other lemmy instances is to try and separate ties from that website. I also feel linking to a reddit post directly discourages posting and discussing things here.
Screenshots or even images from reddit I don’t think matter as much, just like how a link to a YouTube video wouldn’t matter that much as that doesn’t actively discourage discussion. Hope this makes sense, my thoughts tend to be rather scattered.
It does, these are essentially my thoughts on the matter.
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.
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?
If it’s about making fun of Average Redditors, then I’m all for it. If you do crosslink, use a privacy frontend like libreddit, so that you aren’t funding them with monetized data.
My instance so far still hasn’t been killed by Reddit’s API changes: https://lr.burger.rodeo