A lifeless copy? Why would people want to engage with any of these posts or comments?

I can ask a question but will never get a reply. Why bother asking?

I understand you try to populate communities which lack activity, but this sounds like a recipe for frustration. People might learn it's useless to comment, which could reduce activity even in actual, man-made posts and comments.

Hey I have a question because this actually interests me and contrary to popular opinionn on this sub I think this idea would work!

Since migrating I've found myself wanting to search Reddit dozens of times for content I needed but was too damned pissed to provide them with any traffic.

My input is: it seems that the main beef of most people here is the lack of engagement, making Lemmy seem like a ghost town. Would we be able to comment on the mirrored posts (on Lemmy) thus solving the engagement problem? I'm no techspert but feel like allowing comments underneath mirrored posts for Lemmy, not Reddit would be possible I guess? Or at least some equivalent?

I'm also interested in this because I have my own little feed I'm setting up, and it would be cool to be able to add more content very easily. I don't really want it to be from Reddit but, just anything different I could do would be nice, and hey if there is something important I'd like to add from there or even just to take notes that'd be nice so I for one would use it.

A bridge that allows us access to reddits content, driving up their traffic (and server costs) - the whole reason for the API changes WHILE refusing them any engagement? Sounds like a win-win to me.