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.
Definitely get in contact with us admins before setting up any bot, I’m not sure we want to allow that on this instance.
I’m not sure we want to allow that on this instance.
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.
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I’d like to add that we did recently add bot accounts, and the ability to hide bot posts / comments in your settings.
Some suggestions: *Don’t cross post comments *And reduce the frequency of posts ,30/hr is too much
Agreed. It won’t be 30 every hour though, it’ll end up being like 2/3 per hour on a normal day. Most posts on /r/india stays there on top for a while.
Why not cross-post comments though? I personally find this feature very appealing.
If it’s implemented like you said in the post it might encourage spam.
It being spam didn’t even cross my mind. lol You’re right, cross-content for one can be spam for other. I was thinking in terms of Matrix bridges, which are also common in other chat ecosystems. e.g most ecosystems I’ve encountered (slack, zulip, discord, mattermost) have one way or other to interop with IRC. There usually is a bot which cross-posts whenever there is a message on IRC and vice-versa.
Don’t the api changes mean bots won’t work?
30 posts an hour?! May be the top 5 posts of the day would be good.
Every 6 hours you could do 2 posts maybe. You will first have to instill privacy values in Indians, because we (not me but in general) love the Google, Apple, Facebook and the Anglo 14 Eyes stuff and are still mentally and culturally colonised.
r/india is a bunch of corporate loving liberals, neolibs and reactionaries, which while being better than chodi or indiaspeaks right wing bigot cesspools, is different from what Lemmy and Lemmurs want.
r/IndianLeft
What is this sub?
What do lemmurs want? I am new here.
Lemmurs want Lemmy to not become another reddit with redditor like user behaviour and low quality or duplicate posting.
That sounds impractical. What else do you consider behavior-to-avoid, other than low quality and reposts? Do lemmy has anything in built to avoid reposts, or low quality posts? Goals on lemmy.ml don’t mention this. Is this something you personally want, or are these !india@lemmy.ml goals?
I hope I am not coming off as argumentative/offensive. I am genuinely curious.
You can ask any old Lemmy user and they will share the same views as I said. You seem to be a day old user.
I agree. Early Lemmy, while not particularly active, had a lot of good posts and the community was incredibly kind and developed good discussions in the comments. That quality and community is still present, of course, but as we’ve grown, I’ve already seen elements of Reddit creeping in: low quality nonsense comments, an increasing amount of liberals and reactionaries, techno-chauvinists who separate technology from politics, etc. I want Lemmy to grow, but not at the expense of it’s idiosyncrasies that separated it from Reddit.
I personally do not think all liberals are bad (I am not one now) but the rest are surely bad elements. More accurately, you would say corrupt leftist liberals.
So many elements of reddit can be identifiable to any vigilant folk easily, that are parasites and plagues worse than this COVID. Moreso, considering how reddit replaced the entire forum and internet board culture.
The community over at india@kbin.social has been more active, or at least has a dedicated set of folks who have been posting content. Maybe its better to concentrate the activity there rather than splinter between lemmy and kbin instances.
