Suggestions for speeding up Alt tech adoption, the GETTR way

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨iamtanmay@wolfballs.com⁩ to ⁨freeforum@wolfballs.com⁩

For all the Flak that GETTR gets, which is richly deserved, I think they did one thing rather well -> content mirroring.

GETTR mirrored Tweets from famous celebrities, to catch up to Twitter content. GAB did the same with Trump's twitter. Old tech like Fbook, Reddit have collected content over decades. Hard for new alt tech sites to compete over content.
End user only cares about content. They don't care about free speech. Normies are turned off by alt tech, because they feel the sites are too Echo Chamberish or don't have interesting content like movies, sports etc.
I think this strategy would work for Reddit Alternatives too. Mirror ALL of reddit including accounts, which can be claimed later.
I was thinking of doing the same for a Wikipedia alt, where the content would be linked to wikipedia.com, to save costs, but would get filtered by unbiased editors before reaching readers. Low cost, efficient solution.

What do you guys think ?

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squashkin@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I don't think this is complicated it's just marketing, I think we've been passively waiting for the next banwave on reddit to send a subreddit or a few over

marketing can be done in a lot of ways, from traditional billboard ads to content marketing posting on other social media to word of mouth to other things

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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  Yup, that's how I came to Wolfballs. I was just f***ing done with the lies and the bans regarding the Vax propaganda
  
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masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Great idea. I don't think we even need to mirror all content. Just the top content. Maybe make a bot for each sub.

This should be made generic with a docker container so anyone can deploy it.

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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  ... you could save $$ if you only save wolfball user comments and votes on synced posts, but fetch the post itself from Reddit.com
  
  Something like:
  
  On website load, fetch posts from a default or user curated list.
  
  Check if there are comments/votes from wolfballs users. Add them on top of the fetch
  
  Present to user seamlessly, making it look like everything is hosted on wolfballs, but actually fucking Reddit.com over and saving nice $$
  
  Profits???
  
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  - masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Think I would just make a bot account, scrape reddit once a day for top post, post to wolfballs with bot account.
    
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sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
https://hoot.goldandblack.xyz/ mirrors a number of subreddits. I subscribed to those mirrors at first, but eventually I found it was filling my feed with no engagement posts because they were posted by a bot. I'm not interested in something like a lemmy or a lotide for a feed of stories, that's what I have my pleroma for. I have lotide (and subscribe to lemmy communities) because I want to comment on stories and see what others have to say. By just mirroring those communities, you end up reducing the benefit of having a website like these ones imo.

Another thing is that a lot of people left reddit because their communities were toxic echo chambers that silenced any and all dissent. A unique benefit of being able to host your own communities is being able to cultivate the sort of community you want to see, whether that's a very closed community like lemmy.ml or a very open community like wolfballs. By default, if you're making something that's too much just reddit, then you're going to have something characterized by reddit. The mass posting that's brought over will be posting made by their communities by their users following their rules.

I'm not saying don't do it, just be aware that there are consequences and it isn't necessarily the slam dunk you might think. It can result in a ghost town -- buildings everywhere, and nobody in them.

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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  
  it was filling my feed with no engagement posts
  
  Sounds like lazy coding. Done properly, feed should look like on Reddit, not random posts nobody likes. I have seen such lazy websites. Don't really get why they exist. Very amateurish.
  
  By just mirroring those communities
  
  I agree. There should be wolfballs comments and votes added on top, otherwise its useless. If Wolfballers can comment on Reddit stuff here, we have defeated their censorship. Nothing they can do about it.
  
  I actually was inspired by Dissenter from Gab. That browser let users comment on ANY webpage, i.e. even on sites that don't have comments. Its really brilliant ! No one can censor you, EVER
  
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