So, how many of you bounce between the 3 Reddit subs and here? Well I guess now 2 Reddit subs and here. When r/fosscad got nuked, I started working on a way to mirror Reddit post to a Lemmy database. I couldn’t find a working simple project other than Fediverser, and had trouble setting that up…so just made my own.
Anyway, is there any benefit to mirroring Reddit to here provided shitinator okays it? Currently I have it running as a two way bridge so people can comment on Lemmy or Reddit and it be mirrored both ways. Trying to humanize it more so it doesnt get banned, but the one way mirror version (Reddit to Lemmy Bridge) works great.
Basically this is just a poll to see if people here visit all the places and find it annoying enough to want to at least mirror Reddit to Lemmy so they only need to visit here. As a one way mirror, you would still have to go back to Reddit to comment, though. At least until I can keep the two way from getting banned.
I literally just had a comment nuked on r/fosscadtoo because I put a link to this forum in my comment. I will keep pushing people to join us over here so we don’t have to deal with the bs with Reddit.
I’m running a simple cron-based reddit to Lemmy bridge over at !bazaar@fosscad.io to pull from r/gundeals - it doesn’t do comments right now. It also only pulls posts with a certain number of upvotes. It’s a bit noisy, and we don’t have OP/commenters available on Lemmy for a good discussion.
I’ve written more advanced mirroring scripts for re-uploading archives of r/fosscad to !ark@fosscad.io
My concern with two-way mirroring would be Rule 7 violations in comments on Lemmy, getting mirrored to Reddit, and causing bans.
I think we should encourage people to join us here, as much as possible, while keeping the subreddits alive enough to be an on-ramp to the GCI/Fosscad Lemmy instances.
Keep reminding everyone to come here, what your saying add benefits but we need to move on
Over on the Fediverse (like Pleroma, Mastodon, etc.), I had the misfortune of watching a few instances build themselves into a corner with Twitter mirrors. All conversations were Twitter-centric and they never built communities of their own. They ultimately fell apart, both in terms of community and interaction rate, the moment X closed their API.
Let’s not. I understand the value add you’re seeing here and I appreciate the initiative, but it comes at pretty significant costs.
That’s what I was curious about…what downsides I wasn’t seeing. Thanks for the insight!
Philosophically, we shouldn’t reward Reddit’s bad behaviour by making it easier for people to stay there.
Technically, a two way mirror is likely to get the Reddit subs banned. We don’t have to walk on eggshells here, so it would be easier to slip up in mirrored posts. And a one way mirror would just draw people back into the Reddit tarpit.
That too, come to think of it. A blind backsync would be a horrible idea.
