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[Idea] Officially hosted bot for Reddit → Lemmy crossposting (gitlab.com)
submitted 5 days ago by heyakyra@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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Reddit moderators could use this to tell their communities all content plus extra will be here instead

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[–] heyakyra@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't understand this sentiment. I am on reddit but want to be here. Want to make the transition easier for the places I mod

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What sentiment ? That reddit is a toxic, centralised, commercial shit hole loke Twitter etal ?

[–] heyakyra@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah exactly. That's why mods of communities that agree might want to make it easier to switch?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

I think there are entire servers that mirror reddit and they are consistently defederated. My view is that if I wanted to be on reddit, I'd be there. It has a lot of not content that I would rather not have on the fediverse. Also, because the content is just synced, the original poster cannot react to the content on the fediverse.

If there were a bridge where responses from the fediverse would be copied to reddit, it might be more useful. In its current form, of just feels like content-stuffing.

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The sentiment is 'fuck reddit'. putting up a bot to bring that shithole closer to tihe fediverse will result in a change of sentiment to 'fuck this bot.'

If you like reddit that is your choice. Go there as well. but don't try to force that onto people who came here to get away from there just so you have one less click.

[–] heyakyra@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck reddit. I don't like reddit. How are the links magically evil if they were crossposted? The functionality is the same

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Almost everyone here could create a local bot that just scrapes URLs and dumps them here from anywhere. We don't because the people here, by and large, still place intrinsic value on things shared by a human.

To me - This is not a dumping ground for random links. It is a place where PEOPLE saw something interesting and shared it themselves.