Hi folks! I just came up with something, no idea if its good but you judge that:

TL;DR: Can we make a browser extention or something that gives us a button to copy an entire comment chain with crucial, niche advice to a lemmy post or is that gone since the API went down?

I often google things for work and hobbies, code snippets, log entries, ways to make my insane docker setups work. For example, I got a lemmy instance working in docker with this.

Very often, I end up on reddit. If the post or comment in question is helpful, I’d like to upvote or ask a follow up question. For that I still need my reddit account.

But for the “praise helpful comment” I could also do that here. Some people link to the comment/post which also brings back traffic to reddit (which I dont like).

So I’d probably just copy the post (and/or comment chain in question) to a new post on lemmy.

It would go a little like this:

  • User1: “Post describing a topic”
  • User2: Helpful comment nr 1
  • User1: Follow up question
  • User2: Helpful comment nr 2

For that, I’d need some kind of automation. Since the API is gone, I don’t know if that is possible but the option to “copy entire comment chain up to this comment” would definitely be awesome.

Feel free to tell me otherwise.

Edit: If this isn’t obvious: It would accumulate the most helpful stuff from reddit on here without it being blindly crossposted by bots and would push google results (because its niche!) and most likely not a copyright issue because it is so few things that it should fly under the radar.

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    1 year ago

    An important key difference is that the bot that you’re talking about mirrors whole subreddits, regardless of people interacting with it; while my suggestion is a bot that copies specific threads upon user request. As such the later would generate considerably less noise, enough to keep it contained to a single comm.

    There is not much use in third hand content that suggests a discussion, while it isn’t being discussed here.

    OP proposed a use - building a knowledge base here that could attract other users.

    Id rather we had more content creators to provide valuable OC.

    I agree with you but I don’t think that we need to choose between one or another.