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Is this the biggest /r/annarbor replacement? How would all... dozen?... of you feel about a bot that discretely scrapes new posts off /r/annarbor and cross posts them here? (kbin.social)

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Is this the biggest /r/annarbor replacement? How would all... dozen?... of you feel about a bot that discretely scrapes new posts off /r/annarbor and cross posts them here?

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

Okay I've slept on this, and my thinking is now that it's the Community not the links. Finding useful Mlive articles is important but it's being to read comments from other people and being able to post your own thoughts and interacting with others without someone biting your head off.

I'd like this sub to become a thing. Fediverse is rough the edges and I'm not sure if it'll work, but it's a truly different approach to social media and represents an opportunity to help address some of the fundamental issues with Reddit.

With that in mind, I'm going to try to consciously post links and comment on them with the idea that if you shout enough into the void they will eventually come. I'd love for anyone else to do so as well to try to help build this up.

I am going to refrain from plugging this on Discord since things aren't smooth enough for non-technical users. I think the best indicator of when it gets to that point is when non-technical users are gushing about the site to other non-technical users. I will try to monitor it and answer questions if/when they pop up though.