Reddy is a small app that I've developped over the past few days, and I want to show it to you so you can give me your thoughts, advices and ideas for the app.
Reddy is a GTK Linux app that takes an image (PNG, JPEG, GIF) at random in a subreddit and allows you to repost it in any Lemmy community. I made it principally to share content easily on Lemmy, as Reddit becomes more and more abusive and I think having copies of some content of reddit here on Lemmy is not a bad idea.
The app comes with a few restriction to prevent abuse:
- You cannot repost the image twice in the same community
- The reddit post link will always be shown in the body of the post. To give credit where credit is due.
Also, the app fetch the title and NSFW status of the reddit post automatically, but you can change it as needed.
The app require a reddit API client id/secret (The free API seems to still be working as of now) and a Lemmy account.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about such app, if you have any concerns as an user or as an instance owner please share your thoughts!
EDIT: Reddy is out for everyone to try out on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.krafting.Reddy
Bots have their utility, but should be treated with caution, as they have the risk of flooding small communities with posts which garner zero comments. It might be a good idea to aim for no more than 50% of posts (on average) being from bots.
@[email protected], would there be a way to incorporate some form of rate-limiting based on the level of human activity in the community?
See : https://lemmy.world/comment/9863709
Also, rate limiting should be implemented at the lemmy server level (if someone wanted to flood/spam a community he could write a simple script that post 1000 post per seconds easily)
Plus there are already real bot software that repost reddit content without human approbation, this app doesn't repost automatically without the user input.
But I totally understand this concern. And I'll see if this app gets abused or anything that might deteriorate our Lemmy experience.