Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here?
Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here?
Arguments to support the idea:
- According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
- People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
- Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I'm seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news
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A manually curated mirror of interesting Reddit posts that are self-contained, would be useful. But a bot just mindlessly copying and pasting everything would push us away
If you see something interesting on reddit... just post it here, problem solved.
It's not just about the links, it's also the discussion threads from "self" posts.
In support of jet> as a person not currently a member, encountering it on my /all lemmy feed, I'll repeat what I've said about other communities I find interesting in the past that suddenly become spammy:
Just block it. The moment I start seeing 10+ posts from a bot from the same community, I just block the community. Blocking the bot is of course an option, but I tend to be of the opinion that communities that allow that kind of spam into the fediverse don't belong in my feed.
The Reddit activity vs Lemmy activity is a real problem though. OP's two-way mirror option is definitely a way to overcome that, but sounds like it would be real spammy. I'm not sure what a good solution for Lemmy's activity problem is though; it may just be accepting smaller less active, but more tight knit communities than Reddit had, or fewer communities existing unless they reach a certain critical mass.
if its a real two way bridge, then its at least real human conversations, even if they are not lemmies. If they can read and respond to your comments, I think its a win.
it wouldn't make sense for World News, we have enough fighting there by ourselves. But VLSI design.... sure, why not?
See point #3 of my list. The particular clever thing about the tool is that it is not using one single bot account to mirror the content, but it actually creates a mirror account for every poster and commenter who participates in the discussion. This is showing some interesting advantages:
- The conversation "feels" organic.
- It makes it possible for the reddit user to "take over" the mirror account, which helps conversion.
- (WIP) It allows two-way conversation between lemmy and reddit, which for the niche communities will tend to favor lemmy (As in, conversations started in Lemmy happen only in Lemmy, but conversations started on reddit will be both on Lemmy and reddit)
How about we give this a go for a couple of weeks? This community in particular is pretty much inactive anyway. If people feel annoyed by the mirrored posts or think that is detrimental to the community, I can disable them again.
How about we dont
If you get a great Reddit bridge working bi-directionally. More power to you. I took a look at home lab right now, there's a ton of post but no comments. So I'm not sure it's there yet.
This is what I'm seeing...
Yeah. That looks great. Just not what I'm seeing on my instance, maybe I need to update?
Pretty sure I read before that those counts do not include federated instances and only represent user/subscriber count on the instance you're viewing from.
I'm not looking at the statistics. I'm looking at the different posts in the community. And they're all empty for me. I open them up and they're still empty.
If no one at your instance subscribes to the community, you won't see the updated data. If you subscribe to the community, you'll be seeing the posts/comments as well (provided the instance is federating properly)
Subscribing did it. Nice bridge. If it's bi-directional then that's amazing. Bring a lot of activity into Lemmy
If it’s bi-directional then that’s amazing.
What's the long-term anti-blocking plan?
Different people run bridges for different communities? So it's difficult to track down all the different bridges?
Multiple bridges is the short-term plan. The real long-term plan is to bring enough people to the fediverse to the point reddit is obsolete and the bridges are no longer necessary...
Isn't working or loading for me.
Your doing good work, you should have some crypto (xmr, etc) donation addresses on your GitHub page