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 [email protected] or [email protected] .
  • 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.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    21 year ago

    Exactly. The main purpose is to help bootstrap the niche communities here who still don’t have enough people to make it sustainable by bringing the content and eventually the redditors as well.

    • @atrielienz
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      11 year ago

      Ah. Then it’s basically not as useful as the use case I was expecting. Sorry about that. I misunderstood.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        11 year ago

        I think the use case you have in mind (creating mirror instances of niche sub) can be achived with this system, but then you’d have to run your own lemmy instance - or at least use one where you can create communities and the instance admins are welcoming to bots…

    • @atrielienz
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      11 year ago

      Does this include past posts or just new posts being mirrored from reddit to Lemmy?

      • @[email protected]OP
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        11 year ago

        At the moment it’s only going to pull posts from the last 12 hours but it can be changed to get farther into the past. The problem to do this is that it will require a lot of API requests, which means having to pay reddit.