I’m not a fan of bots reposting stuff from reddit onto lemmy. Lemmy for me was supposed to be a complete replacement of reddit, not just a proxy.

???

On top of that, most ISPs block port 25 on residential IP addresses to combat spam, making it impossible to go full ”DIY”

To do what, exactly?

There are a bunch of alternative front-ends at least, like photon

Maybe I’m in over my head, but I’ve been learning rust for a few months, and this seems like a fun thing to implement.

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll definitely ask them first. Good luck with your side projects 😁

Im interested in this as well

And all the software is open source :)