I've posted before about my fediverser project, and I am now looking to see who is interested in participating.
The short description is that it does the following:
- it runs a lemmy instance which will be the home of bots that mirror accounts on reddit.
- The admin of this instance can choose what subreddits are going to be monitored from this instance. Let's say that these are the "source" communities.
- For these selected subreddits, the admin can define where the posts from these subreddits should be posted in the other lemmy instances. We can, e.g, map posts from /r/selfhosted to !main@selfhosted.forum or !selfhosted@lemmy.world .
- You can choose whether to mirror the posts only or the whole thread with comments from reddit. Each of these will be authored by the account that mirrors the original reddit user.
- (WIP, optional) responses to the reddit mirror accounts will create a comment on reddit with a link to original lemmy thread.
So, now I finally got to deploy the first lemmy fediversed instance, and I'd like to know the following:
- which subreddits you still follow but would like to bring to the fediverse?
- For instance admins and community mods, what communities you would like to be the destination of the mirror posts, and would you be interested in having the posts only or the whole thread?
Bear in mind that this is NOT advised to be done for the bigger subs. The idea here is not to create a huge army of bots and overwhelm the fediverse, but mostly to create a migration path to those who rely on the more niche subreddits.
Okay not precisely, but we have a bot (I think it's the one at smeargle.fans) that reposts Reddit threads and replicates all of their comments, which nobody engages with
Well that term just doesn't apply. I'm not saying "Real Lemmy users avoid anything to do with Reddit" or anything along those lines. You asked for feedback, and I gave you my honest criticism of it.
I understand that you found a project that sounds fun to make, and it probably will be. This is what we engineers do, we get excited to build things that seem to have clever technical answers. However in my past few months on Lemmy, I have seen these ideas, and have seen the way they tend to work out so far.
The logic may be simple, but human psychology is rarely as simple as engineers wish it could be.
Feel free to build your project. All aspiring engineers should make things that they want to make. But if you ask for feedback, don't argue that the feedback is wrong. Not all solutions end up working out the way you hope, and that's part of the engineering life. And based on prior experience, this one is likely to get the same treatment that the other repost bots get.
Sorry for the bluntness, but I did not ask for any feedback at all. I am asking very specific questions and this post is mostly to collect information from those who can be interested in using it.
What an awful way to interact with potential users. Accepting constructive criticism leads to better and more successful projects.
A simple, dismissive "Okay thank you" would have sufficed.
Even more so considering most of his 'users' will be in that role without consent. OP prefers to pretend his userbase only consists of those who consent. I say for every person who finds this useful, there will be 10 or more who have to take action to shut it off. For some, this action might be to leave Lemmy altogether, backfiring on the intended effect of the tool.
I don't mind criticism. If you go take a look at my post when I first announced the project you will see that I was accepting all the concerns that people were raising.
What I do mind is being lectured by someone who constructs a bunch of strawmen ("this is just like lemmit!", "I don't want this, therefore no one wants this!") and then when called out for them responds with "they were just giving feedback".