Why not make a bot that copy-pastes Reddit threads into respective Lemmy ones?

It exists and people hate it. If you want reddit go to reddit.

Yeah, I blocked that on sight

When I see a community full of bot threads, I see an empty community.

I came here to get away from reddit.

The lack of content and low userbase isn't concerning?

I was also under the impression most people left because of decisions made by a certain Spazo guy, not because of the content on Reddit itself.
- No. This is Lemmy, not Reddit, and it’s not intended to be a Reddit clone. It’s its own community, and growth is intended to be organic. Copy-pasting from the snoo site isn’t what people come here for.
- I quit because nazi rage baiting and other obscenely low quality posts kept hitting the front page, even with massive amounts of curation. It's like, what's the point of having block lists and user tagging if the toxicity it's coming from the website itself? It's better just to quit at that point.
  
  I could go back at any time but why the fuck would I? The content quality is trash and there's always a harassing nazi on a comment I made like 3 years ago. All the normal, levelheaded people jumped ship a long time ago with the holdovers doing so after he started pulling that API crap.
- I prefer fewer but organic content than bot-submitted content that no one will participate in.
- I originally came here just for the blackout. Then I realized it's way cooler here, and stayed.
  
  I'm not trying to recreate my reddit experience here, I'm trying to be part of something else.
  
  The future is federated.

I honestly do not understand when people complain about Lemmy being too empty. That's not my experience at all, not even close! My subscribed feed is pretty tame (intentionally), but if I switch to all, I can scroll and scroll until I'm like "maybe I should take a break" and I'm still only seeing posts from like 3h back. There is so much going on here, how are people going around saying it's dead?

I find the communities i'm most interested about extremely empty, about to respond to a post then I notice it was made weeks ago..
- Is it a time sensitive topic?
- Are there bigger versions of the same communities elsewhere? One of the problems at the moment is duplicates, and finding the one where people have coalesced can be be hard, sometimes just dumb luck.
Ikr, I never run out of internet in the fediverse.

If you find an empty community and wish there were most posts, maybe post something.

people have already done this so its not a novel idea and
the reason why most people that have seen these bots hate them is because they contribute nothing of value. There is no discussion, there is no content that Reddit does not have by definition

In addition to what other users said: quality matters. 90% of the content of any subreddit is trash, and bots are unable to sieve the 10% of good stuff from that trash. As such, most [all?] bots automatically bringing content from Reddit are bound to litter Lemmy and make it worse, not better.

The same applies to most users there, too. There are a few rational people there, and we should attract them to Lemmy if/when possible, but most redditors are dead weight and trash, and do a great favour to Lemmy if they stay in Reddit.

username checks out

Lemmy: "we came to Lemmy to get away from Reddit"

Also Lemmy: "username checks out"
- It doesn't matter if it's Reddit, Lemmy or anywhere else - if the username checks out, then the username checks out, and that's an amusing tidbit worth mentioning.
  
  And this is definitely a case in which the username checks out.
- That phrase is not exclusive to reddit, try again.

that exists in instances such as lemmit.online

the issue with having that in the main communities is communication will be one way if you try to reply to that. Theres bots such as the l4s bot that is in the middle of the two that ocasionally cross-posts link posts that are popular though. Thats still controversial but can be easily blocked

Server costs, spam, single-sided-coversations

It's a bad idea, see https://lemmit.online/ for bots

convs. here got a little heated, try not adding to the fire. Also, in my case I don't like it caz the comments are dead, if someone posts a meme, caz they found it funny, I respond, thet respond, we have a nice chat. If it's posted by a bot, none of this applies, comment section ia dead, imagine this thread, but without you responding at all.. Yeah, not so pretty.

And also Lemmy lacks content only if you doomscroll it. Try getting a life, I don't mean that in a toxic way, some ppl here are much more cultured, ask for a book recommendation or something, and when you ran out of fresh posts, try reading a bit.

Your comments regarding niche commjnites having week old to no posts, well, if you're part of that community, try posting! Maybe someone is the same way as you, but didn't voice it, just left the site.
you can't find communities? Try posting to a wuestion whether it exists or not.

And btw: you're here for a reason, and it's not that you're being forced. Instead of making this plave heated and toxic, try leaving (you'll soon learn that it's not worth being the keyboard warrior, I know, I was you/it), not permanently, but for like a day or something.

No, people tried that, it's horrible. Bot activity makes people leave communities, not join them.

I think maybe you need to curate your feed a bit better?

it's been done. it is not good and every time i see one of those spam bots i block it. if i didn't, browsing 'all' would be mostly zero conversation reddit links. it makes the lemmy experience much better without them, imho.

The worst thing to do would be an inorganic botch job on here to fill a gap when there's no need, you can read that content elsewhere.

Anyway, it's not an automatic guarantee of engagement or interaction. It's purely a hack move.

I'm happy to use Reddit if I feel I can't find anything to read on Kbin. You are allowed to use both you know?

I left reddit, and pretty much stay away from it. I don't want to give advertising revenue to reddit. And so I suggest federating with reddit is not a good idea. As you say, "it's over there, if we need/want it", to paraphrase.

meh. im getting plenty of content out of kbin.

Me too. I think we might have more content via kbin than even the lemmyverse, because of the microblogs.

why not invite more people

I've been trying the subtle 'send friends cool posts from the fediverse', as I wasn't having much luck explaining what the fediverse is/ why we should leave the corporate social media behind.