[Idea] Officially hosted bot for Reddit → Lemmy crossposting

a year ago by heyakyra to c/meta

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Reddit moderators could use this to tell their communities all content plus extra will be here instead

hzl 3 points a year ago

Can't block it fast enough. If I wanted reddit, I'd be on reddit. I already block feddit and other instances that seem to be focused on being reddit.

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heyakyra 1 point a year ago

I don't understand this sentiment. I am on reddit but want to be here. Want to make the transition easier for the places I mod

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onlinepersona 2 points a year ago

I think there are entire servers that mirror reddit and they are consistently defederated. My view is that if I wanted to be on reddit, I'd be there. It has a lot of not content that I would rather not have on the fediverse. Also, because the content is just synced, the original poster cannot react to the content on the fediverse.

If there were a bridge where responses from the fediverse would be copied to reddit, it might be more useful. In its current form, of just feels like content-stuffing.

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hanrahan 2 points a year ago

What sentiment ? That reddit is a toxic, centralised, commercial shit hole loke Twitter etal ?

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heyakyra 1 point a year ago

Yeah exactly. That's why mods of communities that agree might want to make it easier to switch?

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Bo7a 1 point a year ago

The sentiment is 'fuck reddit'. putting up a bot to bring that shithole closer to tihe fediverse will result in a change of sentiment to 'fuck this bot.'

If you like reddit that is your choice. Go there as well. but don't try to force that onto people who came here to get away from there just so you have one less click.

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heyakyra 1 point a year ago

Fuck reddit. I don't like reddit. How are the links magically evil if they were crossposted? The functionality is the same

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Bo7a 2 points a year ago

Almost everyone here could create a local bot that just scrapes URLs and dumps them here from anywhere. We don't because the people here, by and large, still place intrinsic value on things shared by a human.

To me - This is not a dumping ground for random links. It is a place where PEOPLE saw something interesting and shared it themselves.

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Kissaki 2 points a year ago

This bot is "official" in what way?

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heyakyra 1 point a year ago

This is a request for the admins to host the bot here so that certain communities can opt-in for the service (would still need approval)

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WallsToTheBalls 2 points a year ago

This has been done and redone, everybody hated it, most people blocked the entire instance

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