Yes, content is important, but it’s not about the amount of content, but the quality of the content and discussion. Imagine every day you come to Lemmy and your front page is flooded with 0 upvote posts with no discussion from Reddit. You’d probably leave right away.
Manually cross-posting content that you like is probably better, since you’re more likely to choose high-quality relevant content, and (I’m assuming) you’d be rate-limited to an appropriate amount.
Yes, content is important, but it’s not about the amount of content, but the quality of the content and discussion. Imagine every day you come to Lemmy and your front page is flooded with 0 upvote posts with no discussion from Reddit. You’d probably leave right away.
Manually cross-posting content that you like is probably better, since you’re more likely to choose high-quality relevant content, and (I’m assuming) you’d be rate-limited to an appropriate amount.