I get where you're coming from, but why not just let Lemmy be its own thing and hope it grows and attracts the right user base? I think I'd rather keep the two separate.

[–] GillyGumbo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, my only use case for reddit currently is as an archive for my questions that likely have answers on reddit. A reddit archive Lemmy instance would allow me to completely stop usage of reddit, easily. I'd imagine there are a lot in the same boat.

Not sure that it's even a feasible option, but it would be welcomed. If anyone has some suggestions to solve this use case I'd be interested to hear it.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

There's no feasible way to glean that information quickly with the API changes, but a potential solution to that may come on Bing. I was reading last week sometime that they're partnering with reddit to bring longer threads to bing search results, so that would help if your concern is giving them traffic. Otherwise I can't see anyway of getting around having to just rebuild the archive organically over time here on Lemmy.

[–] techwizrd@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind some shared content from quality communities, like the posts from the machine learning research community.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Cross post those particular posts in niche subs yourself and hopefully that helps drive engagement. Can't hurt.