Is this the biggest /r/annarbor replacement? How would all… dozen?.. of you feel about a bot that discretely scrapes new posts off /r/annarbor and cross posts them here?
@SirNuke I would rather have people manually post the good stuff, so that actual people are engaging with the community
@george I agree and it would be detrimental once the community starts to establish itself. But I’m also trying to think of what can be done to help kick start things. I could also just periodically manually cross post more highly voted links.
I have a feeling that would simply encourage people to go back to Reddit.
i’d rather not see Lemmy be a bunch of auto-reposts from reddit (or any other platform). If you find links on reddit, its cool to share them here, but not automatically.
I’m ok with it. We could also plug lemmy on the discord server to help get some traction
I’m not sure. More content would be great, but I know I wouldn’t be thrilled at things I post getting scraped and reposted somewhere else. I like the suggestion of promoting the community in the Discord better, but I mostly get my local Ann Arbor posts from the a2mi.social Mastodon instance.
Okay I’ve slept on this, and my thinking is now that it’s the Community not the links. Finding useful Mlive articles is important but it’s being to read comments from other people and being able to post your own thoughts and interacting with others without someone biting your head off.
I’d like this sub to become a thing. Fediverse is rough the edges and I’m not sure if it’ll work, but it’s a truly different approach to social media and represents an opportunity to help address some of the fundamental issues with Reddit.
With that in mind, I’m going to try to consciously post links and comment on them with the idea that if you shout enough into the void they will eventually come. I’d love for anyone else to do so as well to try to help build this up.
I am going to refrain from plugging this on Discord since things aren’t smooth enough for non-technical users. I think the best indicator of when it gets to that point is when non-technical users are gushing about the site to other non-technical users. I will try to monitor it and answer questions if/when they pop up though.
