Something to think about. It is pointless to interact with any of those posts directly here, so as a result they get no engagement. They’re just links to Reddit, and I feel like they’re just funnelling engagement back there. I can’t help but notice, possibly incorrectly, that activity here sharply dropped as soon as that bot went active.
If we want the content here, wouldn’t it make more sense to pull non self post content directly and post it as a first class Lemmy post here without linking to the reddit post?
If our goal is to make this the new Monero home, wouldn’t a better approach be adding this site to the sidebar on the subreddit, or having automod inform every poster about it’s existence? Is moving here even our goal anymore?
I like having the ability to still see what’s going on over there without visiting myself or giving Reddit any traffic. I see it as similar to browsing headlines in a news aggregator to keep up with what’s “trending” even if I’m not digging into or engaging with the content. So long as it remains easy to filter it out of your feed here, as Blake suggested below by blocking the @RSS profile, I think more options are better than less so each user can decide.
Plus, if you found a particularly compelling topic it might be worthwhile to go engage with users there, either in thread or in direct messages, even if it were just to let them know we are over here. I’m hoping this community continues to grow and all the good posters and topics eventually migrate here.
I think replying to questions on the .town mirror-post and then linking to the comment on reddit is fun: “This question has been answered on monero.town/post/…” 🤭