Did we really need yet another reddit mirroring bot?
The idea of fediverser is to do a lot more than “another mirroring bot”. The idea is to have a way that can let people “clone” their reddit profiles to Lemmy instances and seamlessly migrate away from it. Pulling content from reddit and into specific communities (where the mods have expressed interest in hosting the mirrored content) is a way to bootstrap the Lemmy community and to convince potential reddit-migrants that they can settle here without missing out on the content from the niche communities.
Temperche@feddit.de 8 months ago
I personally requested it because this particular bot also mirrors comments, not just posts. And the two super niche communities it posts in are completely dead on lemmy, so im trying to revive them by having at least some updates, also so people dont have to go back to reddit just to get that niche content.
rglullis@communick.news 8 months ago
As somewhat expected, alien.top was defederated. May I recommend you re-create your community in an instance managed by people with a little bit more sense?
Temperche@feddit.de 8 months ago
The admin banned the whole communities! I first have to find an instance that would be okay with your software. Do you have any suggestions as to how to find one? Also, in case you didnt see, real lemmy users engaged in discussions based on the reddit comments many times already, making your idea a success!
rglullis@communick.news 8 months ago
Yeah, I know. I’m seeing the same at !main@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news. It’s really cool, and it will be even cooler when I make it two-way.
I’m thinking of building a whole network of different instances based around specific instances. I have for selfhosted (which will be for devops in general), soccer, basketball, american football, tennis, crypto/blockchain. Maybe I should set up one for TV/Movie/Music discussion. Any good ideas for a domain name? :)