Arguments to support the idea:

  • According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
  • People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
  • Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I’m seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news
  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    A manually curated mirror of interesting Reddit posts that are self-contained, would be useful. But a bot just mindlessly copying and pasting everything would push us away

    • DogMuffinsEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      If you see something interesting on reddit… just post it here, problem solved.

      • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        It’s not just about the links, it’s also the discussion threads from “self” posts.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        if its a real two way bridge, then its at least real human conversations, even if they are not lemmies. If they can read and respond to your comments, I think its a win.

        it wouldn’t make sense for World News, we have enough fighting there by ourselves. But VLSI design… sure, why not?

    • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      See point #3 of my list. The particular clever thing about the tool is that it is not using one single bot account to mirror the content, but it actually creates a mirror account for every poster and commenter who participates in the discussion. This is showing some interesting advantages:

      • The conversation “feels” organic.
      • It makes it possible for the reddit user to “take over” the mirror account, which helps conversion.
      • (WIP) It allows two-way conversation between lemmy and reddit, which for the niche communities will tend to favor lemmy (As in, conversations started in Lemmy happen only in Lemmy, but conversations started on reddit will be both on Lemmy and reddit)

      How about we give this a go for a couple of weeks? This community in particular is pretty much inactive anyway. If people feel annoyed by the mirrored posts or think that is detrimental to the community, I can disable them again.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If you get a great Reddit bridge working bi-directionally. More power to you. I took a look at home lab right now, there’s a ton of post but no comments. So I’m not sure it’s there yet.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah. That looks great. Just not what I’m seeing on my instance, maybe I need to update?

            • clyneEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Pretty sure I read before that those counts do not include federated instances and only represent user/subscriber count on the instance you’re viewing from.

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I’m not looking at the statistics. I’m looking at the different posts in the community. And they’re all empty for me. I open them up and they’re still empty.

            • rglullis@communick.newsOPEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              If no one at your instance subscribes to the community, you won’t see the updated data. If you subscribe to the community, you’ll be seeing the posts/comments as well (provided the instance is federating properly)