Comment on Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Are you going to foot the bill for the Reddit API fees?
Have you considered what you will do if Reddit cuts you off? IANAL, but it’s fairly clear from the TOS that they will likely shut you down.
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rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
I am not mirroring all of reddit, and the idea is that each “fediverser” instance pulls only enough data to stay under the 600 requests/ 10 minutes, which is free.
If they decide to go after these fediverser instances, they will have to play whack-a-mole, because anyone can get new keys and start anew.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
It’ll be easy enough for them to block
fediverser/0.1.0user-agents, so perhaps that’s not a safe default value since it’s an easy target.I’ll be honest, I saw a previous post of yours and was sceptical, but I think based on the idea, you’ve taken the best steps to make this a reality. Having the communities be part of instances where they fit in and can be maintained by moderators who care about the subjects is a challenge, but it does set it up for longer success.
As others have pointed out, there’s still an imbalance where people don’t realize they’re replying to shadow accounts (like this for example). Maybe a good solution would be to DM someone who replies to a comment by one of the bot accounts explaining what’s going on. Maybe asking the person who commented to reach out to the user on Reddit directly, and asking them to join the Fediverse would be a good solution and would bring in the human element to the process. This would avoid you having to build that feature (and likely appear to be a spammer) which might have a higher conversion ratio.
I’m not sure if you have a plan for it, but somehow allowing the Reddit user to take over the shadow account would probably achieve your goal of getting more people to convert, and would be a benefit to niche instances looking to grow their organic members. However you do this, it should be seamless to the new member, with the minimal number of hurdles.
Good luck!
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Thank you! I really like the idea of getting the people already on Lemmy involved in the process of “fediversing” the people. I will definitely try to find a way to work this into the tool.