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Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here? (communick.news)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Arguments to support the idea:

  • According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
  • People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
  • Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I'm seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See point #3 of my list. The particular clever thing about the tool is that it is not using one single bot account to mirror the content, but it actually creates a mirror account for every poster and commenter who participates in the discussion. This is showing some interesting advantages:

  • The conversation "feels" organic.
  • It makes it possible for the reddit user to "take over" the mirror account, which helps conversion.
  • (WIP) It allows two-way conversation between lemmy and reddit, which for the niche communities will tend to favor lemmy (As in, conversations started in Lemmy happen only in Lemmy, but conversations started on reddit will be both on Lemmy and reddit)

How about we give this a go for a couple of weeks? This community in particular is pretty much inactive anyway. If people feel annoyed by the mirrored posts or think that is detrimental to the community, I can disable them again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you get a great Reddit bridge working bi-directionally. More power to you. I took a look at home lab right now, there's a ton of post but no comments. So I'm not sure it's there yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is what I'm seeing...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. That looks great. Just not what I'm seeing on my instance, maybe I need to update?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If no one at your instance subscribes to the community, you won't see the updated data. If you subscribe to the community, you'll be seeing the posts/comments as well (provided the instance is federating properly)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Subscribing did it. Nice bridge. If it's bi-directional then that's amazing. Bring a lot of activity into Lemmy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it’s bi-directional then that’s amazing.

Not yet, but working on it :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What's the long-term anti-blocking plan?

Different people run bridges for different communities? So it's difficult to track down all the different bridges?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Multiple bridges is the short-term plan. The real long-term plan is to bring enough people to the fediverse to the point reddit is obsolete and the bridges are no longer necessary...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://www.mushroomlabs.com/

Isn't working or loading for me.

Your doing good work, you should have some crypto (xmr, etc) donation addresses on your GitHub page

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I don't have a website there, I do need to find the time to put it up.

I've added an Ethereum address on the github sponsors page, but honestly the best way to help me is by subscribing to communick. 5 bucks a month will give you access to 10 mastodon accounts, which you can then share with your friends. It helps me to fund the operation and it helps overcome the issue of network effects.