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.

  • shagie@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is why the next part of the work is to build a bridge to send notifications to the people on reddit.

    You do realize how fast this would be used to spam users on Reddit and then how absurdly quickly it would result in the API keys getting restricted?

      • shagie@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If 90 accounts over the course of 15 minutes comment on a post in Lemmy, how many notifications would be sent to the person on Reddit? How frequently? Does it honor the reddit feature of unselecting "notify me about followup comments?"

        • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          1. the idea is simply to reply to the comment by replying to the comment, not by notifying the user or sending a DM

          2. This is not implemented yet.

          3. it is an open source project. Instead of playing armchair software architect, feel free to contribute if you worry so much about the implementation.

          • shagie@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Python isn't a language I am deeply familiar with.

            I am more interested in Lemmy growing on its own, in a different direction than reddit - rather than trying to copy reddit and its features (and problems).

            This looks like it is going to run smack into TOS problems. You can claim that its going to be playing whackamole with instances, if it is sufficiently problematic then lawyers can get involved.

            Creating these copies of reddit content makes Lemmy look like a ghost town. Copying content from people who didn't consent to having their content pushed onto the Fediverse and federated across multiple instances (how would you handle a GDPR request?) leads to other problems.

            I'm not worried at all about the implementation. I believe that its goal and means are flawed and counterproductive to the growth of the Fediverse as its own thing and contribute to making Lemmy hollow budding of Reddit.

            People point to early Reddit and say "see all the bots and fake accounts that were created early on? That's a bad thing - we're better than that." (How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts)

            This project is copying a reddit in content and culture.