Seeing low activity here, I was thinking of creating a bot which can bring content from /r/india. Here’s what I have in mind:
- Every hour, post top 30 posts from /r/india to /c/india
- Also cross-post comments from all the posts we cross-post i.e if someone posts a comment on reddit, post it here; and if someone responds to a comment here, re-post it on appropriate thread in reddit
What do guys think? Is it a good idea? In my mind it can help break content monopoly of reddit.
Why not?
Because if Lemmy is full posts mirrored from Reddit, then people might decide its better to visit Reddit directly. I think its better if we build our own, independent community here, and maybe mirror posts manually on a case by case basis.
I can respect that. I was approaching the same thing from other side, if I can get everything from reddit here, I won’t need to visit Reddit. Perhaps I should invest in a RSS-reader kind of aggregator that can do that purely client side.
One thing you could do is setup a separate Lemmy instance for Reddit crossposts. Then lemmy.ml and other instances could decide to federate with that or not.