I’ve posted before about my fediverser project, and I am now looking to see who is interested in participating.
The short description is that it does the following:
- it runs a lemmy instance which will be the home of bots that mirror accounts on reddit.
- The admin of this instance can choose what subreddits are going to be monitored from this instance. Let’s say that these are the “source” communities.
- For these selected subreddits, the admin can define where the posts from these subreddits should be posted in the other lemmy instances. We can, e.g, map posts from /r/selfhosted to !main@selfhosted.forum or !selfhosted@lemmy.world .
- You can choose whether to mirror the posts only or the whole thread with comments from reddit. Each of these will be authored by the account that mirrors the original reddit user.
- (WIP, optional) responses to the reddit mirror accounts will create a comment on reddit with a link to original lemmy thread.
So, now I finally got to deploy the first lemmy fediversed instance, and I’d like to know the following:
- which subreddits you still follow but would like to bring to the fediverse?
- For instance admins and community mods, what communities you would like to be the destination of the mirror posts, and would you be interested in having the posts only or the whole thread?
Bear in mind that this is NOT advised to be done for the bigger subs. The idea here is not to create a huge army of bots and overwhelm the fediverse, but mostly to create a migration path to those who rely on the more niche subreddits.
I’m not a fan of mirroring Reddit, but I can’t stop you. Make sure it is easy to block (such as one bot user posting all posts but not comments) if you don’t want to be defedded from a bunch of instances.
Actually, the idea is to have all bots users on the same instance precisely to make it easy for unwelcoming admins to block or defederate it.
Edit: ignore my post below. I see the point of your project now (help bootstrap niche communities.) I just hope admins use it as intended.
You’re giving choice to admins but not to instance users with this.
Blocking nsfw communities from nsfw instances was already annoying and tedious (and I’m far from being a prude, I just don’t want to see “cum in my creampied pussy” when I’m browsing while having lunch.)
Reddit content is mostly rage bait these days. This is why many of us fled that cesspool.
Why not use some other website instead of reddit?
Just wanted you to know, I read this comment while browsing and having lunch.