Comment on What is the current plan for growing the fediverse/wolfballs?
lorenzoT@wolfballs.com 2 years agoEmail list?
The cheapest way is setting up a way to crosspost from here to reddit. Like we click 'crosspost -> reddit' reddit asks for permission to share, then the person's reddit account posts the content to the sub they want. I'm pretty sure reddit accounts have a 3rd party access feature.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I have a data set of 20,000 email addresses. I'm agonna send them all a email invite. I need to do it legally and make sure it doesn't end up in a spam folder so its taking me a few weeks to get that ready.
Cross post idea seems interesting. I don't want to help contribute content to reddit though. If I did that I would make sure every post end with
Or something
lorenzoT@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
good job with the 20 000 emails! I would think you could probably use like a gmail burner account? Set up something to send like 5-15 emails once an hour to the target email address to avoid making google immediately sus
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
The email would be detected as spam. You need to use a trusted email service for that many emails. Like Amazon. The links in the email need to reference the same domain that is sending it. So you need to set up the correct dns settings. A few more rules to follow and the email won't end up in junk or spam. Maybe it still ends up in the promotions folder.
To be legal in the US you need to allow them to unsubscribe. So I wrote a web service to do that.
All I need to do now is write the script to send them all out and make a promotional video to go with it explaining everything.
Should be done in the next few weeks.
lorenzoT@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Nice!
lorenzoT@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yeah i think a from wolfballs.com would be a good ending, some actual bots do this for raddle.me i think.
For memes, whats the fastest way to watermark images with a wolfballs.com? Ideally some kind of automatic app which would make the image ready to share with reddit in like 1s. The reddit sharing could be manual too.
So the flow would be like;
post meme to wolfballs, (lets say it takes 1 minute)
run image through app (ideally 1s)
post to relevant subreddit (ideally like 25s)
which would only be like 26s extra effort.
If this makes sense