Discord Fediverse Bridge

4 months ago by nachitima to c/fediverse

Hello! I’m excited to share that I’ve built a service that bridges Discord forum channels with the Fediverse, particularly with Lemmy communities!

In short: with the bot, you can either subscribe a Discord forum channel to an existing Fediverse community, or create a new federated community and assign a forum channel to it. Posts and comments are then synchronized between Discord and the Fediverse via ActivityPub.

Please note that the project is at a very early stage.

You can try it on your own on a dedicated Discord server I created:

https://discord.gg/8WXE9bZhbP

If you find it useful or interesting, or if you have any concerns about it, I am open to your feedback. Financial support for further development would also be very appreciated.

I have also created a dedicated community for this project, so you can write something there and the messages will be synchronized between Discord and the Fediverse:

!discord_fediverse_bridge@bridge.nachitima.com

To learn how the service works in more detail, you can read the README on the repository page:

https://github.com/...

And by the way, this post was created in Discord 🙂

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rglullis 2 points 4 months ago

So every new conversation thread becomes a new post and every response becomes a comment?

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nachitima 3 points 4 months ago

Exactly! Replies are also supported 🙂

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rglullis 2 points 4 months ago

Do you really think this is a good idea? Have you considered the amount of traffic will be generated and the amount of data storage this will require?

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nachitima 3 points 4 months ago

I haven’t considered any of it, because I just wanted to build it to use it on my own 🙂 If someone in the world also finds it useful, then implementing some optimizations would not be a huge deal I believe. At least for personal use it is a working tool already

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rglullis 2 points 4 months ago

Short of pruning the data every once in a while (and losing all history) there is nothing that can be done to optimize it. It may work as a proof-of-concept or if you want to run on your own, but I really don't think it is a good idea to promote it.

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