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Mirroring Reddit to Lemmy (self.general)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Stuck7hrottle to c/general

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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.

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[–] TheShittinator 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Stuck7hrottle 5 points 1 month ago

That's what I was curious about.....what downsides I wasn't seeing. Thanks for the insight!