It helps when you realize that a vast majority of Reddit’s content was already reposted from somewhere else.

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I’m also doing this. You have to think differently.

Firstly, reposting from anywhere is actually absolutely no problem at all. You are doing a very valuable service, which is curation. Yeah, people could be going to reddit or wherever directly. But do you post everything from reddit/wherever? Of course not, because a bunch of it is shit. Shit no one else will have to wade through because of you.

In addition, you’re essentially reducing reddits user count. The people that follow your small community here don’t have to be on reddit anymore.

Secondly, not coming up with stuff yourself is completely normal. Who even does that, really? We’re mostly all just rehashing things we saw somewhere else, combining them into something “new”. I’m pretty bad at coming up with stuff myself. But that’s just… Not important. My worth as a person isn’t defined by what I create, so if I don’t create anything, nothing bad happens. If I actually do create something, nice, if not, also nice.

I think reposts from reddit could be really beneficial for lemmy , cause part what made reddit great was that it was basically a content libary, that had the answers to a lot of questions and in turn drove people to the side. On lemmy we still have to build that libary

Different perspective: “I am the content!”