Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse?

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• montag@friendica.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why would anyone want that? The Fediverse is a social network, which means that interactions between individual users are possible. With mirrored posts, such interactions and, above all, communication with the author of the post are not possible. In the worst case, such mirrored posts are simply spam.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  PeerTube has that built in. You can set up a channel and have it import or mirror a Youtube channel. For Lemmy there’s several bits and scripts. As other people said that’s what lemmit.online is about.

  Be a bit careful when rolling this out. Several people don’t like it. They’ve left Reddit for a reason and this is drowning them in bot activity. And usually these posts are low engagement, Reddit users can’t see the comments, so you’re not getting a lot of answers. I think it’s good practice how we here have separated that to dedicated instances, so users can just have genuine conversations everywhere else.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yea, bot posts screw up our post:comment ratio, they make a ton of posts but they don’t get comments, and seeing a bunch of posts with 0 comments causes users to leave Lemmy

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    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes. And I’ve seen people do really weird (and worse) stuff, like re-post questions. And if you’re unaware of that, you’re bound to take 10mins out of your day to answer the product or Linux or life question and later find out you were ripped off. At least that’s how it feels to me if people fabricate that kind of activity. And it kills the mood to write comments for a while.

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  • Twoafros@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks, I didn’t know Peertube had a built in tool for mirroring a channel. I will look into that.

    I just found out about lemmit.online from the other answers and I agree with you on having be a different instance is good practice.

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    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Alright. And for your information, the Peertube function is a bit broken. I think the Peertube developers did their best. But Youtube has a lot of datacenter IP address ranges blocked. And they do rate-limiting and force people to sign in after downloading a few videos. Plus yt-dlp (which it relies upon and Youtube are playing this cat and mouse game… So it’s disabled on most instances because it doesn’t really work. I was able to make it work on my instance, but I had to jump through several hoops. Configure a SOCKS proxy and tunnel it over my home, residential internet connection. And I think I transferred my login cookies as well.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s what lemmit.online is for reddit to Lemmy, sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ for Twitter and apparently also Instagram.

  One problem with this is copyright; if it’s OC images or text posts, it could infringe on the original poster’s copyright. Not a problem if it’s merely sharing links.

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  • Twoafros@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thank you for sharing the links and for pointing out this has potential copyright issues. I think its still good to have these tools though.

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• 30p87@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The main problem with that is the lack of communicating with the OP. The only place where that is negligible would probably be peertube/YT. Especially since YT is one of the worst with 3rd party frontends, so fully mirroring might just work better (ignoring any laws, that is).

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  • Twoafros@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lack of communicating with OP would be nice but its nice to just mirror their page if they are content creators

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mirror? What even for?

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but it seems that most people forgot about alien.top and fediverser.io

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