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Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?

I've posted before about my fediverser project, and I am now looking to see who is interested in participating.

The short description is that it does the following:

  • it runs a lemmy instance which will be the home of bots that mirror accounts on reddit.
  • The admin of this instance can choose what subreddits are going to be monitored from this instance. Let's say that these are the "source" communities.
  • For these selected subreddits, the admin can define where the posts from these subreddits should be posted in the other lemmy instances. We can, e.g, map posts from /r/selfhosted to !main@selfhosted.forum or !selfhosted@lemmy.world .
  • You can choose whether to mirror the posts only or the whole thread with comments from reddit. Each of these will be authored by the account that mirrors the original reddit user.
  • (WIP, optional) responses to the reddit mirror accounts will create a comment on reddit with a link to original lemmy thread.

So, now I finally got to deploy the first lemmy fediversed instance, and I'd like to know the following:

  • which subreddits you still follow but would like to bring to the fediverse?
  • For instance admins and community mods, what communities you would like to be the destination of the mirror posts, and would you be interested in having the posts only or the whole thread?

Bear in mind that this is NOT advised to be done for the bigger subs. The idea here is not to create a huge army of bots and overwhelm the fediverse, but mostly to create a migration path to those who rely on the more niche subreddits.

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  • Thank you for this. Don’t listen to the haters, by bringing reddit’s content over here you’re still adding more content to the fediverse. I would love it if you brought over meme communities

    • Thank you for the kind words, but I'm probably not going to do this for meme communities for the following reasons:

      • lots of images means hosting a lot of content and a big storage bill.
      • lots of users with lots of comments/submissions, will be hard to mirror those without hitting API rate-limiting ceilings.
      • if the mirrored instance gets lots of bot accounts who post nothing but low-quality content, it will make the people here on Lemmy associate it with spam.

      But if you really want those, you can get a domain name and I could perhaps host it for you on https://communick.com ?

      • This is my first time looking into this service, but I would be willing to pay to have the service hosted. Does your link above include a way to get started with running the software you coded?

        • At the moment I'm only offering managed hosting for Lemmy, but I can work on adding the fediverser admin as well. If you give a day or two I can have it set up.

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