I tried really hard to get the !buildapcsales community going here, but I got hit by someone running a script that massively downvoted all my posts going back a month, and it was really disheartening so I stopped.
If anything, shouldn’t it be encouraged, and even automated? I’m including even the ‘old’ stuff from reddit here. Reddit shouldn’t be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users. When I migrated here, it wasn’t because of me being against reddit users, but being against reddit the company. Copying the...
I’ve been struggling with this. I have been posting a lot to the !buildapcsales community to try to get it going. At one point, I thought “these are just links to deals, wouldn’t it be easier to have a bot steal them from Reddit?”
But then I realized that while the links to deals have some value, it’s really the community and discussion that provides value. Would you rather have a bot creating a hundred posts a day with no comments? Or a few posts made by actual people with whom you can ask questions or have a discussion?
Yesterday’s community spotlight about the PC Master Race community got me thinking: is there a similar community for deals on PC components? Anyone who has ever built a PC knows that component prices vary widely. Getting a good deal is probably half the work of building or upgrading a PC....
Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....
Why is it frowned upon here to 'steal' content from reddit?
If anything, shouldn’t it be encouraged, and even automated? I’m including even the ‘old’ stuff from reddit here. Reddit shouldn’t be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users. When I migrated here, it wasn’t because of me being against reddit users, but being against reddit the company. Copying the...
Niche communities you're in that haven't had much interaction? EDIT: Thanks for all your suggestions!
Just curious to see what communities you would like to see more engagement in....
Community Spotlight: Build A PC Sales (lemmy.ml)
Yesterday’s community spotlight about the PC Master Race community got me thinking: is there a similar community for deals on PC components? Anyone who has ever built a PC knows that component prices vary widely. Getting a good deal is probably half the work of building or upgrading a PC....