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You have to jump-start communities. Copying is a simple way to do it.
The importance of jump starting can't be understated. Most people will go to the community that has content. If a community is empty, a lot of people won't even start participating in it. Plenty of people who make posts want them to be discussed, so they're only looking for active communities.
I think I have a bit of a bias against trying to make Lemmy a copy of Reddit, but I also feel like it doesn't make sense to copy old discussion threads. Someone asked a question on Reddit and got an answer. We don't need that duplicated here, in my opinion.
Again, i think a mod relocating their community is a different situation.
Although when I see such communities not having any replies to reddit share/RSS/bot on
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communities`, work days or a week it starts to feel like that fire 🔥 isn't starting.Don't forget that the real migration has not even started, assuming there is going to be one - one week to go for that to begin.