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Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits? (lemmy.cif.su)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by icystar@lemmy.cif.su to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.

Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.

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[–] Switorik@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No one engages in bot content and many completely block it.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.

Most people don't even recognize it's a bot.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is true. Check out the lemm.it instance it tried to do exactly what you're talking about about

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Somebody already mentioned that, and I mentioned how all the communities are all locked and literally only the bot can post.

It also appears to only mirror reddit, with no connection to other lemmy instances.

This is not what I am talking about adding.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

alien.top was a thing, and it was hated.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

18.4k posts, and his only two comments are those.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's because they delete their old comments.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Still not a bot.

If that account is a bot, it should be flagged as such, and LW admins are usually looking closely at those cases.

@MrKaplan@lemmy.world, I assume you checked whether Microwave was a bot or not?

[–] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

there is currently nothing I can see that would be a strong bot indicator. there are various indicators of an actual human using the account.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's because they delete their old comments.