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You can now get reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, without any ads ;) (yiffit.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Check out [email protected]. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.

Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you've seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.

You can make requests for subs to fetch at [email protected].

In the end we're just using lemmy and lemmit's bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Can you have this post to an existing lemmt community? Like, pipe /r/WoT to [email protected]?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The posts that are mirrored from Reddit should stay on their own communities. Otherwise you’re getting artificial content, likely with no participation.

If it’s interesting enough, someone will repost it and start conversation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I disagree. This content is largely no different than content posted directly to lemmy by actual users. People will subscribe, comment, up/downvote, and it will not be different in any meaningful way. It's just a great wellspring of content to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mostly agree, but there is a risk of overwhelming the new and relatively small communities of fediverse with a lot of links without any comments/discussion. Is there a way to filter the content according to their reddit ratings. That would help fetching more interesting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It would stand to reason that if there is discussion on the original reddit thread, that it would also generate discussion here too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Community is much smaller on this side of the fence, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly reddit is about 100 times too big now. Most comments on major threads go unseen. It was plenty big enough 16 years ago for lots of good discussion, way better than today to be honest. Now it's just about who can get the quickest quip in. Actual discussion is pretty lacking on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not trying to say "bigger is better." The point I'm trying to make is: if a bot starts flooding lemmy communities with myriad of links, then it will be more difficult for a smaller community to make sense of it. There will be lots of communities that has many links without comments. It will start looking like a dead village. So, it would be better if only the real interesting stuff (with high ratings) are brought in. That way, fediverse communities would have a better place to start from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you visit Lemmit.world, you can post requests and they will go into a community in Lemmit.world. It's been set up as a sort of Reddit mirror, and people can subscribe to those communities from across the rest of the Thrediverse.

I think if you wanted to pipe into an existing community then you'd probably be looking at running a Bot yourself that can post the content directly into that community in the same way. It may be worth asking on Lemmit.world to see what is involved, but also on lemmy.ml to see if that is an acceptable thing to be trying on that instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure. Probably if you run the bot yourself. I think it's open source.