I have created some software that is capable of synchronising posts from Reddit
to Lemmy. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but it works as a such:
People can request new subreddits to be mirrored on
[email protected]
[
[email protected]]. A bot (open source
[https://gitlab.com/sab_from_earth/lemmit]) will monitor the threads there, and
if it finds a new request for a subreddit, it will make a new community on the
Lemmit server, and add it to its monitored list. It will then make periodic
checks to see if any new posts (it doesn’t copy any comments) have been posted
on reddit, and copy those over. Users can then subscribe to those communities
from their own lemmy instance, and from there federation will pick it up. Or at
least, that’s the theory. At the moment, federation is not working awesomely,
and that is where my lack of fediverse knowledge comes in. Maybe it needs more
time, or something is not so properly - I don’t know. Furthermore: registrations
on this server are closed. The point of this service is not to become a
community on its own, but to deliver, ehh, “original” content to all the rest of
the Fediverse while it’s going through a ramp-up phase. Besides, the instance is
running on a pretty small vps, and I rather have this thing manage itself. There
is a
[email protected] [https://lemmit.online/c/about] community for further
questions about the project itself though, in case people want to discuss it
further. So ehm… Let me know what you think :)
I think this might be worth doing as a one-time thing just to set the tone for what a new community is about. Scrape the top voted 200 of all time as a seed.