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’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.