The best way I think is to have specific set of servers with the sole purpose of cataloging. Reddit grew to it’s size organically, and the same would have to happen here for it to actually work. But I think for just internet historical purposes and to drive content here to have something searchable to add some utility early on is absolutely worthwhile.

If you do this, please don’t copy them all over at the same time and clog up the timelines. Maybe one post per day or something similar.

I think it’s fine, but I also don’t think any of us need to do anything beyond come here and engage with one another.

No online community lasts forever, but Reddit isn’t going away soon. It’ll continue disenfranchising people with each thing it does in pursuit of profitability and with each step away from what initially made it special. People will keep coming here.

I think the best thing folks here can do is just keep using the space and let it develop into whatever. People it appeals to will join us. Those who aren’t into it will go somewhere else. In a few more years, I hope that Lemmy is its own thing that feels special in its own right.

I was having the same thought, mostly to kick-start some of the smaller niche communities that I used to use on Reddit.

In some communities I was already repeating the same advice over and over again like a parrot.
There was so much traffic and desinformation that the same question would pop up 30 times in an hour.
Since some of the comminities I liked I haven’t been able to find here, I just… created it. And am slowly filling it in with everything I amassed during my reddit time.
People may find it useful or not, and may begin engaging with it or not (hope not, cause I wasn’t born to “mod”) but at least I will have all advice and resources in one spot, neat and tidy. And if anyone needs it, it will be there.

Copying content? No that will piss off a lot of people and makes Lemmy look desperate. Give it time to grow organically.

Not sure about that, it could end up being counterproductive, I mean, reddit is full of spam, if there’s no good antispam feature here you could ruin communities with a bot copying content.

Not to mention that if someone on reddit realizes there are bots copying content, they could even spam the subs on purpose.

I believe it would be better to do it manually, copying the source in case of links, not copying text post, that wouldn’t be honest IMO.