I have created some software that is capable of synchronising posts from Reddit to Lemmy. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but it works as a such:

People can request new subreddits to be mirrored on [email protected]. A bot (open source) will monitor the threads there, and if it finds a new request for a subreddit, it will make a new community on the Lemmit server, and add it to its monitored list. It will then make periodic checks to see if any new posts (it doesn’t copy any comments) have been posted on reddit, and copy those over.

Users can then subscribe to those communities from their own lemmy instance, and from there federation will pick it up. Or at least, that’s the theory. At the moment, federation is not working awesomely, and that is where my lack of fediverse knowledge comes in. Maybe it needs more time, or something is not so properly - I don’t know.

Furthermore: registrations on this server are closed. The point of this service is not to become a community on its own, but to deliver, ehh, “original” content to all the rest of the Fediverse while it’s going through a ramp-up phase. Besides, the instance is running on a pretty small vps, and I rather have this thing manage itself. There is a [email protected] community for further questions about the project itself though, in case people want to discuss it further.

So ehm… Let me know what you think :)

  • Dick JusticeEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    So posts from reddit are going to flood the All feed on lemmy?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Yups. It’s all done by one bot though, so you’ll just have to block that to get rid of them.

      • Dick JusticeEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        oh good! thank you so much for the reply. It’s beilliant dev work on your end, and certainly nothing I’d be able to pull off aas I dont have the beain capacity, but I’m just over Reddit at this point and dont want to watch them spiral. Thank you for maaking sure there’s a way to opt out!

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          I’m absolutely with you on that on. If anything, part of the reason I wanted this was to have some fresh content that I knew I was going to miss once after July 1st. Stuff like [email protected] for example. There’s a bit too much reddit-circlejerk going on right now, even here imho.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          9•2 years ago

          If that’s what happens, that’s what happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          I’m just here to offer a service for people who Do like it.

        • ZambonimanEnglish
          7•2 years ago

          I kinda get what you’re saying, but not really. Why would adding more content such as this lead to an instance wanting to defederate from that instance? There’s no users there to troll, spam, or break the rules. It just adds posts.

        • kopper [they/them]English
          2•2 years ago

          Defederation isn’t a bad thing, it’s just curation. Especially in this case where you’re not breaking any human<->human connections.

          I’d still prefer something along the lines of Masto’s silencing, which would get rid of instances from global feeds yet still allow follows and interactions, but upstream already has too much on their plate and I’m sure given the time something similar would be implemented.