Hi, I have a bot that I use to mirror posts from one of my favourite Reddit communities onto Lemmy (!2visegrad4you), since there are not enough active users on lemmy for the community to be self-sufficient just yet. Still, it seems it was popular as the reposts were getting upvotes....
I agree that mindlessly flooding Lemmy with Reddit content just to create fake activity would hurt the platform. But I think that in some select cases it can have value: take !100yearsago . I am stealing a content feed off reddit and allowing people to access the same content feed here on Lemmy, giving them one less reason to stay on Reddit. The posts are getting upvotes so it seems to be working. Furthermore, the community is open to OC posts so nothing is stopping organic activity once the community has gained enough users thanks to the existing content feed.
This might go slightly against the spirit of Lemmy, but for subreddits that act like a content feed where losing comments isn’t a problem, I’ve created a reposter bot to mirror subreddits on Lemmy.
It has proven quite popular on !100yearsago . If anyone wants me to mirror a similar sub just drop me a comment
Hmm, I think the bot works well for subs that are mainly a content feed so losing the comments isn’t a big deal (like eg. r/EarthPorn). But with r/Czech there is quite a lot of discussion so I’m not sure if reposting just the posts and losing the comments makes sense. I really don’t gaf about Reddot’s TOS, the thing I was ethically unsure about was if flooding Lemmy with Reddit reposts (ie. creating ‘fake activity’) wouldn’t be detrimental. But with !100yearsago it seems to be going well.
Also yes I am Czech (I can also speak a bit of German like you do).
Reddit mirroring bot
Hi, I have a bot that I use to mirror posts from one of my favourite Reddit communities onto Lemmy (!2visegrad4you), since there are not enough active users on lemmy for the community to be self-sufficient just yet. Still, it seems it was popular as the reposts were getting upvotes....
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