Huge benefit for reddit mods stuck without an easy way to move their communities over
Already exists at lemmit.online. Many servers block it because it’s annoying. I use it to keep track of niche communities I left behind.
Would admins host a Reddit → Lemmy crossposting bot to help mods?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by heyakyra@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
https://gitlab.com/sab_from_earth/lemmit
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Mirroring Reddit threads discourages participation as the OP isn’t there and there’s little point in discussing with yourself.
can@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s been tried. It sounds like a good idea but all you get are a bunch of threads with no comments and an OP that can never reply.
There was even one that spun up a Lemmy acct for each reddit user that they could claim to ease the transition.
While a cool concept it was largely derided by the existing threadiverse users.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 week ago
You can also have the RSS feed of Old Reddit bridged over - the feed link is the subreddit's link with .rss appended at the end (e.g. r/Starbound). Through microblogging platforms (tested on Mastodon), you can go through either @owner or @birb to have Reddit's posts shared in the fediverse. And on the threads platforms (e.g. Lemmy), only know about !meta, where you can request feeds to be tracked. Can't check lemmit.online from the other comment right now.
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
can@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are a few cases where it can be convenient but it’s rare and reserved for ones that act more like an rss feed. And I do subscribe to some of the similar rss feed mirroring communities/instances.