What would they be migrating to? Neither Lemmy nor Tildes seems to want to take on a mass exodus. Both have said they are not Reddit replacements and they don’t want to be either. I’ve been trying to figure out where people are actually headed to. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, outside?
Lohrun
joined 2 years ago
Bots potentially might be effected by the API changes coming in a couple weeks. Personally, I think we could benefit from a few utility bots like AutoMod, AutoTldr, RemindMe, WikiLink. (None of those would rely on Reddit either)
If we wanted bots to automatically bring in content, we should just pull news/posts directly from sources instead of going through Reddit. I could totally see something like an NPR bot.
We just have to be careful with the bots that push content to the site here. We don’t want to flood communities and dilute where discussions are happening. I’ve looked at some other Reddit alternatives and they’ve done that to themselves. They might have tons of recent posts but they all have 0 to 1 comments on them with no other engagement.
It’s why Apple is popular, ease of use for the average person is important. The more streamlined and fool proof you can make things, the easier the adoption is. (Apple might have been a bad example because their whole thing is much more complex)
Gotta convince some of the tech guys coming over from Reddit to spin up their own Lemmy instances so we can properly be distributed and share the load.