I disagree here. The original poster and conversation was started on another platform without any regard or consideration for a platform like Lemmy. They posted it on Reddit, for Reddit, and for Reddit's culture. Not us. Any replies made on Lemmy would not go to the OP on Reddit. Thus, as far as I care, it's a post made by a bot. Any emotion or care towards the intended destination community has been detached the moment it was taken by a bot and put somewhere else.

If someone asks a question on /r/python, and it gets posted here on Lemmy, why would I bother replying? It's not directed towards us, and the OP wouldn't ever see it, so it's just spam at that point.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not us.

I do agree that there is some truth to "The Medium is the Message", but I honestly don't see that much of a difference in medium between social media networks that are very similar in their design.

It’s not directed towards us, and the OP wouldn’t ever see it.

I have more than a handful of people already that signed up to !emacs@communick.news after I saw a question they posted on /r/emacs and I sent them a DM asking them to post their question here as well. There is nothing stopping this tool (it's actually my next item to work on) to streamline this process.

[–] sirfancy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Judging by others' comments and upvotes on my comments, I don't think I'm alone here in my reasoning, but if there are others that don't care about the cross-contamination, then I guess we will agree to disagree. I just know that I personally am blocking communities that cross-contaminate, and I am personally looking for strictly Lemmy user to Lemmy user discussions.