Comment on An idea for more content on Lemmy (and the fediverse): Relly (Relay+Lemmy)
yote_zip@pawb.social 1 year ago
I think the limited number of posts per day feature of this is really the standout that makes this intriguing to me. We already have the Lemmit bot posting every single post from reddit to Lemmy like a firehose, but discussion on them is sort of like yelling into a void. If we only post the top ~3 posts per day from a subreddit, we can condense any conversation into just those and guarantee that it’s not going to get washed away with the rest of the junk content. Even though it’s not ideal, I think a crutch like this could go a long way to seeding some “natural” activity.
Yes, and the fact that it doesn’t post any link that was already posted in the last 48 hours avoid spamming.
I think that subreddits could be usable using the RSS feed system, as Reddit API are expensive and if we set up a RSS feed containing the top of 24 hours, we can extract links from there.
You can make basically any “read” operation on reddit without an API key. The problem is rate-limiting. You can at most make only 600 requests for every 10 minutes.
Is scraping reddit’s HTML without using an API doable? I’m not sure if the reddit RSS feed has any notion of upvotes/popularity.
I had to enter reddit (eeewww…,) but I found it: reddit.com/…/how_to_get_rss_feed_of_a_subreddit_w… Check the first comment.
I should check, but if i remeber correctly, i had some subreddits that i read on newsboat using some kind of option in the RSS link in order to get the top. (something like ?top=24hrs or like that)
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
I’m begging people to take a look at my fediverser project, and it already does some of these things.
It wouldn’t be difficult to add something similar to RSS feeds.
But what I really want to point out is that what we need is not more content per se. What we need is more people participating in the network, our collective goal should be to get all the people who are using reddit/twitter because “that’s where most people are” and provide them tools to migrate without making them feel like they are missing out on anything. This is how we can win.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s a great project, to be honest.
djtech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Getting content from the outside, with all of the tools integrated in Relly, might just be the solution, I guess.
djtech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is cool! As said in another comment, I’m now also thinking about a reverse bot which posts from Lemmy to other platforms and keeps the original URL, so that people can partecipate, see the instance homepage, register, … Just trying to improve this amazing environment!