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 :)

  • @wasonEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Can’t subscribe from my account on lemmy.world any idea what could be?

    The communities don’t show up in search and if I type the community directly I get an error 404: couldn’t find community. Example: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

    • ZambonimanEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Use the search function in your instance, and you’ll likely have to click the ‘search’ button twice to bring it in. Put the original URL from the developer’s instance in the search, like this:

      https://lemmit.online/c/IdiotsInCars

      Then you should get a link for it.

      You get the 404 because your instance doesn’t know about that community yet. It has to be made aware, and then connected to it via you doing the search.

      • @wasonEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Just tried and still doesn’t work. Do you get any results when doing it that way?

        • ZambonimanEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I just tried it again from my account on lemmy.world, and it worked fine the first time. No issues, the link is there.

          Just to be clear. From your own instance, which is lemmy.world, click the search icon in the upper right. In the search bar type:

          https://lemmit.online/c/IdiotsInCars

          and press the search button. You should get a link for the community. Click that to go to it and subscribe.

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

      I’m having similar issues on lemmy.ml, not sure what causes it.

      Well… There is the thing that I had this service running on another host at some point, it got federated with quite a few instances (including lemmy.ml and some others), and I had to reinstall it. Maybe those instances have a hard time accepting the new installation?

      I’m kinda hoping it will sort itself out over time, maybe those instances just need to restart 🤞 .

      • @wasonEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I hope so too.