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What do you think about sublemmies that add content by reposting from Reddit? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by zephyr to c/[email protected]

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Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly yes I think it makes sense to do this, as long as the content itself isn't hosted on reddit. It would be cool if somebody could make a bot for mods to enable this in their communities to specify subs to pull posts from and how often.

[–] Urist 6 points 2 years ago

It's something that certain subs should 100% do, especially those based on image memes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I created a bot like this. https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt
It's intended for links and I wouldn't encourage using it for anything else, as you said I think the best idea is to crosspost content that isn't on reddit on the first place, and just use reddit as a way to measure how engaging is the post.
This is so far a work in progress so expect bugs. But in my opinion, the bot is usable in this stage.

Edit: I might add multiple subreddit and magazine/community support, so you could specify a map and pull from many places to post in many places, stay tuned.

[–] dystop 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thanks! I'm on lemmy but just saw /m/BotIt on kbin yesterday, and I assume you're the main party behind that. Admirable work, I'm going to give it a try some time!^___^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, and also @klin who has helped a lot.
Let me know if you have questions, however it should be fairly easy to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's cool thanks I might try setting that up. Could always just setup multiple scripts for each sub to comm mapping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For now that's totally possible. Let me know if you have any questions or problems