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in the Lemmy industry, some people try to accumulate meaningless points and drive "engagement" by reposting bad posts from the website that everyone here claims to hate.......and it works.
Just like real conversations, it's about the people you're having them with, not where you're having them at.
but also just like real conversations about creating connections with the people you're having them with, not repeating something you heard someone else say because you want to be popular and you're desperately trying to get people to talk you.
If you really think it doesn't matter, go participate in the reddit thread where the conversation was more organic instead of trying to recreate it somewhere else for self-benefit.
Posting to an open public forum is very diffent than a 1 on 1 conversation. Either way, I've often heard and told stories that have come from others. Can you really say you've never said "hey I saw/read x" and talk about it? Every interaction doesn't need to be 100% original in all aspects to be engaging.
On the topic of reddit vs hear. Again I'd say organic doesn't mean good or bad. And using content from somewhere else to start a conversation isn't whole cloth good or bad either.
I don't think the situation is as black and white as you're portraying it.
I hear you, but still I find it annoying. I stopped using reddit because I don't like reddit, so I don't need reddit brought to here. I see more more of my sentiment on Lemmy than what you're saying, so it seems in general, people on Lemmy don't want to knowingly interact with recycled reddit content. I would also argue organic or not does matter or we should all be cool with the political astro-turfing and corporate shilling that goes on everywhere.
I for one, am completely ok with that. If it increases content here and moves people away from reddit, then I'm for it
One aspect of this that bothers me is that few serious discussion communities rise to the top. Lemmy lets dessert rise but the main course languishes out of view. I, frankly, don’t even know where to find it.