New job, so figuring out all that stuff related to being in a new environment. :/

I don’t care for it.

People think the “content” of Reddit is the submissions that are made, but that’s not actually that true at all. When people pointed out their ability to get information using search engines degraded due to widespread comment blackouts and protests on Reddit, it wasn’t because the submissions were inaccessible, but because the individual comments and chained discussions that became inaccessible.

Cross-posting from Reddit brings over the submission, but not the comments or discussions related to the submission, and ultimately that is what should be of interest.

Sure there’s not a lot of conversations here in general, but I can 100% assure you cross-posting to bring submissions over here is not going to generate much more.

Yes, but are calzones a sandwich? Is pizza an open-faced sandwich? Why am I asking these questions?

It’s different. I wish I had the ability to create a meta-community (or meta-instance) that pulls communities from different instances together into one feed without having to mass-subscribe to all of them.

The fact there are multiple communities of the same or similar interest spread across multiple instances makes it much harder to get a good grasp of actual activity, so it takes more effort to reach a critical mass.

It’ll get better with time since Lemmy is still pretty underdeveloped as software.