Check out [email protected]. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.
Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you’ve seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.
You can make requests for subs to fetch at [email protected].
In the end we’re just using lemmy and lemmit’s bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.
I wonder how long until they disable RSS on reddit.
Ok, I really don’t get this.
Why are y’all so focused on basically moving Reddit onto the Fediverse when you can just, y’know, either make new content that you want to see on the Fediverse… or just go back to using Reddit? Dunno about you guys, but I got away from Reddit because I don’t want the Fediverse to become Reddit 2.0 in terms of content and community - I was kind of hoping more for Fediverse communities and content, not Reddit communities and content on the Fediverse. If I wanted that, I’d go on Reddit.
Most people didn’t hate the content, they hated the sudden and rapid changes to reddit this month.
Have you just stayed out of your news sections on the Fediverse?
Also what is a Fediverse Community vs a Reddit Community to you?
I hated the content
All of reddit? Lol alright
Well for me lemmy is still missing a ton of activity on several niche communities I followed. Do you have any hobbies?
All of reddit? Lol alright
Comments like this yeah.
The problem is that Reddit as it is now is a treasure trove of good comments by some very intelligent and knowledgeable people. You can find a good answers to most of questions by adding Reddit to the search on Google.
Reddit, and that information, is still there. If you want to avoid giving them hits for advertisers, I recommend trying out teddit.net. It doesn’t use the API, so is unaffected by the new changes.
More generally, use https://libredirect.github.io/ to avoid tracking and advertizers on a whole host of extremely hostile services. Eg, it automatically sends you to a third party Reddit proxy like teddit any time you click on a Reddit link.
I wouldn’t use Google for anything in 2023 partner. Not trying to troll your comment, but I think a lot of us just use it by habit. Given Google’s recent involvement with tracking ppl and DCMA takedowns, not to mention going after open source projects such as Invidious and YT-DL they’re no friend of our community. Just using their services let’s them monetize your data, hence supporting a company that stands against our values. I remember them removing applications from their autocomplete results like Kodi years ago, because the app “was used by pirates.” Give DDG or Brave Search a spin, once you’re used to it, it’s much better than staying on Google’s sinking ship, they’re killing themselves by selling the rankings of search results to the highest bidder versus yielding relevant information at this point.
DDG is better overall than google but once in a while I encounter a search it totally fails to be useful on and I have to resort to Alphabet Inc.
My understanding is that some users dislike reddit but very much like their specific small communities in it. They want to maintain the value of their community without relying on Reddit to host the content, so they are trying to migrate to places like the Fediverse. With that being said, I only support that for smaller subs with their own established community culture. Also, transition is hard so some people want a few familiar landmarks while navigating this new land.
Presumably because everyone else just wants reddit but less shit. If spez hadn’t decided to go insane and tank the usability of the site, yeah, I’d still be there. Fact of the matter is that reddit still has a bunch of content I want to see, but doesn’t exist over here.
So, let’s get to work making content we want to see here
Tbh I don’t really care about the fediverse, I just wanted to find the communities that I lost and if I can have them in one place again, the better. It’s not that I can’t understand why would you want the fediverse for the fediverse, but I only learned about it to do what I came to do and didn’t interest me beyond that.
Nice and all but comments is what’s important on Reddit not the posts themselves.
I agree with that, however there is also some value to having the posts there. For example some local subreddits that I moderate I’d love to be able to kind of “mirror” the posts occuring on reddit as often times things being posted are events, local news, or local recommendation style things. I don’t want to have to manually repost all the news articles that people post for example.
It would be kinda neat to see a browser extension that could integrate these Lemmy communities in a “cross-post” style manner like Reddit does. Allow you to view both reddit and lemmy discussions based on the link.
Wouldn’t such automated crossposting result in some really spammy communities without actual people filtering them?
I think reddit can afford to have so many posts in these massive subs because they have a massive community that engages with the posts by up/down voting them.
I think that’s a fair concern, but it may be a good route for smaller communities to migrate and try and grow their communities.
World News is a big reddit community so I can imagine content flooding happening.
EDIT: Also this is happening only on Lemmit.online which is designed to be a Reddit mirror. So this makes some sense for people willing to try it out or wanting it separate from the active communities.
Indeed. If it’s an instance intended to mirror Reddit, it’s fine as a basic backup of Reddit. We definitely don’t want to encourage this behaviour in general purpose spaces, though. That’ll just fill communities with comments that no one comments on, making everywhere look dead.
@BananaTrifleViolin @crunchpaste @Wander you could have a community populated by only the top posts and comments from reddit after some delay
This will happen. A lot of people did this initially in Mastodon, but it just resulted in feeds getting spammed by reposts from Twitter and drowning out actual posts. Most such users just ended up getting blocked, and others stopped reposting blindly on the fear of getting blocked. My mastodon feed looks so much better without those annoying reposts.
Wow, this is just perfect. Honestly I haven’t been missing much from reddit, but this is the final nail in the coffin for them since we can pick up whatever we are missing from here now. Amazing.
That’s pretty cool, but I think we should focus on leaving that platform altogether.
What’s really nice is he has the reposts all coming from the same bot, so people who still want to keep one foot in the reddit door can have their cake, but those of us who are just totally done with reddit can just block a single bot. That way we dont get flooded with Reddit posts in /all. I really appreciate that setup, cause I just dont want to look at Reddit anywhere anymore. I’ve been suggesting lemmit.online anywhere I can, so that multiple people dont start doing it and it doesn’t become too unruly to block it all. Being able to just block one bot is nice.
What’s to stop all 3rd party apps from doing the same thing? Or is it a read-only one-way kind of deal?
It’s read only and it doesn’t give you access to the original comments. But it works really well for stuff like news, images, etc… where the discussion is mostly not the important part.
A good idea is to create discussions on the lemmy side. What I would do is cross-post it or post it to native lemmy communities and then we can have the discussions there. For example, for news articles and stuff like that.
Of course, discussions will happen here on Lemmy. It’s just a matter of these communities federating so we can all get access to them. So far they don’t come up in my search from other instances.
So we’ll just be an extension to Reddit then?
Nah, Reddit would just be another source of stuff to share.
better this way, could be made smoother but why give them content?
Probably would work to seed small communities with subreddit data, but…the maxim of “the real LPT is always in the comments” holds true (i.e. posts without comments is not what these places are about) and until users come and interact, this isn’t a substitute for being a real community.
Def a decent idea to jumpstart communities, as long as people aren’t too put off by the post data coming from reddit.
been using this for sometimes on on my rss reader app. Great for viewing posts without opening redditWhat app are you using for RSS?
Might be https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou
reeder for ios
Love it!
Oh, there’s a Home Assistant crossposter on Lemmit too at [email protected] . Without Reddit or Twitter I have felt very out of the loop on Home Assistant
Too bad it will stop working in a few days
RSS isn’t the API. On the other hand if this takes off, I’d suspect that they’ll end that too.
They announced that they’ll also remove RSS under the original announcement post in the comments
Amazing 👏
Too bad they don’t seem to be federating. Just tried signing up to that specific community from Kbin, but it doesn’t show the content. Oh well, gonna keep my eye on it, regardless.
They should. You need to search for it to make it available on your instance.
does kbin federate with kbin?
Nice. Now do /buildapcsales, /gundeals, and the like.
You can request them yourself in the requests community.
I see that in your post now. Thanks for the prompt to read more closely.
Can you have this post to an existing lemmt community? Like, pipe /r/WoT to [email protected]?
The posts that are mirrored from Reddit should stay on their own communities. Otherwise you’re getting artificial content, likely with no participation.
If it’s interesting enough, someone will repost it and start conversation.
I disagree. This content is largely no different than content posted directly to lemmy by actual users. People will subscribe, comment, up/downvote, and it will not be different in any meaningful way. It’s just a great wellspring of content to me.
I mostly agree, but there is a risk of overwhelming the new and relatively small communities of fediverse with a lot of links without any comments/discussion. Is there a way to filter the content according to their reddit ratings. That would help fetching more interesting stuff.
It would stand to reason that if there is discussion on the original reddit thread, that it would also generate discussion here too.
Community is much smaller on this side of the fence, though.
Honestly reddit is about 100 times too big now. Most comments on major threads go unseen. It was plenty big enough 16 years ago for lots of good discussion, way better than today to be honest. Now it’s just about who can get the quickest quip in. Actual discussion is pretty lacking on reddit.
I’m not trying to say “bigger is better.” The point I’m trying to make is: if a bot starts flooding lemmy communities with myriad of links, then it will be more difficult for a smaller community to make sense of it. There will be lots of communities that has many links without comments. It will start looking like a dead village. So, it would be better if only the real interesting stuff (with high ratings) are brought in. That way, fediverse communities would have a better place to start from.
If you visit Lemmit.world, you can post requests and they will go into a community in Lemmit.world. It’s been set up as a sort of Reddit mirror, and people can subscribe to those communities from across the rest of the Thrediverse.
I think if you wanted to pipe into an existing community then you’d probably be looking at running a Bot yourself that can post the content directly into that community in the same way. It may be worth asking on Lemmit.world to see what is involved, but also on lemmy.ml to see if that is an acceptable thing to be trying on that instance.
Not sure. Probably if you run the bot yourself. I think it’s open source.
