Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy?
m_f@discuss.online 1 year ago
I think there has to be some level of curation. I set up a queue to post loops to !loops@midwest.social, but I didn’t just write a script that posts everything. I use Loops myself and add things I think are interesting to the queue to be posted. It’s a lot of manual work, but I’m happy to do it for now to help grow the Fediverse, and I enjoy watching the loops anyways.
You could accomplish this with more automatic curation, such as automatically reposting stuff that’s highly upvoted or has some other signal that it’s interesting. I didn’t do that for Loops because there’s a lot of stuff that’s highly-upvoted and is just stuff scraped from TikTok and I don’t care for those. I would probably use this approach if I didn’t want to wade through myself to find signal.
You’re one of the big posters I don’t mind seeing and now it makes sense why. The way so many of the other top posters (well, two in particular but I won’t name them) post feels so…soulless. Either spamming 20 memes they saved off Instagram that day in 10 minutes or posting Reddit’s Greatest Hits.
As much as I’d love if everything was OC, I MUCH prefer the curated approach to making Lemmy yet another bucket to archive everything from every other site
Thanks, I appreciate hearing it!
I always enjoy seeing pug Jesus posts cause he posts little context blurbs for his history memes so I get to learn about stuff, and sometimes I’ve asked him stuff and he’s taught me all about certain parts of history ☺️
His memes come with story time lol.
I feel guilty about my last comment and at the risk of narrowing down who I mean, I want to be clear that Pug is ABSOLUTELY NOT who I was referring to. I love their thoughtful posting habits.
Lol, you’re fine, it just made me remember I appreciate them and it seemed as good an opportunity as any to share :)
Have a good one!
Pug is ABSOLUTELY NOT who I was referring to
That’s the risk when you don’t explitely tell who you have in mind 😄
I’m old enough to remember when Reddit had a built-in RSS feed reader. You could add the RSS feeds you’d like to follow and it would present it to you on a separate page. But the cool thing is that you could up/downvote it like any other link. This meant that every blog entry could become a submission on its own, and all the user had to do was upvote it.
I tried to build something similar on the Fediverser page, but to this there is still too much friction. People need to:
Microw@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reposting based on a signal sounds like the best idea.
Because we kinda have the alternative in place: lemmit chose the way of replicating reddit posts onto a committed instance. That means that someone still has to manually go, look at - for example the F1 - lemmit, choose an interesting post there and cross-post it to the relevant lemmy community.
If the repost into a relevant lemmy community happened automatically based on a signal, that would take off work from users.
Could that signal be the number of interactions in activitypub for a sportsbots post? Or would it be the Twitter interactions?