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
  • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • jetAEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • jetAEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah. That looks great. Just not what I’m seeing on my instance, maybe I need to update?

          • clyne@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • jetAEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              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.

          • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            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)

            • jetAEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Subscribing did it. Nice bridge. If it’s bi-directional then that’s amazing. Bring a lot of activity into Lemmy

                • jetAEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  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?

                  • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
                    21·
                    1 year ago

                    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…