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.

  • rglullis@communick.newsOP
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    1 year ago

    They drown the All feed in zero engagement posts, hiding actual activity.

    If I tell you that I’ve been running this system for two days already, have you noticed and/or found yourself “drowned” by anything?

    • Spzi@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yes, every time I try to use the All feed, I’m presented with new communities which consist of nothing but zero-engagement bot-posts.

      Every time, I can choose between wasting more time on blocking them or abandoning that Feed altogether.

      Granted, not your bots as far as I can tell, but two days is not a long time either. Give it more time and into more hands, abuse will happen.