Comment on Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?

• shagie@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?”

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  • rglullis@communick.news ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • shagie@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 rather than a 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.

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