The problem with that plan is that a huge amount of the value of Reddit was that it was well-indexed by search engines so that when you went searching for something, the conversations from Reddit would pop up, which were generally quite high-quality as far as forum-type content goes.
If you move everything to Lemmy, that won't happen much and as a result fewer people will join the community that don't already know about it somehow.
If you move everything to Lemmy, that won't happen much and as a result fewer people will join the community that don't already know about it somehow.