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[–] hPkEud74N6DJ@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Can we mirror very niche Reddit communities? Edit: would be great to have a website where we could paste the RSS feed and get this set up automatically.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

May I ask what communities are you interested in? I don't want to automatically post things, but you might be interested in the "Community Ambassadors" feature of https://fediverser.network. Ambassadors can add multiple RSS feeds and use them as source of content to their communities, and then they can repost whatever they think is interesting.

[–] hPkEud74N6DJ@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Currently I’m missing:

Apple Maps
Aqara
FIREUK
Monzo
ipv6
tradfri
trading212
TrySwitchBot
Withings
OctopusEnergy

It’s a pretty big list, but these are the main communities which force me to still have Reddit account. Maybe one day we will be able to complete get rid of it but not today.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 3 months ago

This is not a long list at all, and some of these communities you are mentioning might be a good for https://indiehackers.space. The best way you can help me now is by signing-up to https://fediverser.network and adding the subreddits that you are missing and use the "request a community" for the ones that are missing.

I also went ahead and created !applemaps@poweruser.forum if you want to get started. :)

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 3 months ago

I think @rglullis@communick.news has a suggestion that is better than using Reddit's RSS through my tool. Importing Reddit communities via RSS may become spam and stunt the growth of a real local community based around the same topic.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait posts will be manually reposted by real users?

I may be ok with that. I hate non-useful Reddit repost bots and I’m banning/defederating them instance wide.

If things will work manually, I would ask users if they want it. What do you think @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. The idea is to move away from automatic reposting and simply to make it as easy as possible to bring the content from other places and to show people on Reddit that they can migrate easily.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 3 months ago

This is an absolutely excellent idea. I don't think I will allow this for Reddit feeds, since there are two better ways of getting them on Lemmy already.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago

I think it's a pretty decent feature to have

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

There's a server doing that already, I think https://lemmit.online/

Registrations are closed - This isn’t supposed to be a community in itself, but to provide Reddit content to those who miss it in these early days of the Reddit migration.

Still very active from what I can see.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 3 months ago

Whatever you want, yes. I separated it from the main server exactly so that all kinds of stuff could get mirrored without creating a problem.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 3 months ago

I said that I would mirror any community, but I thought about it more, and now I am worried about creating spam. I agree with the other posters that the community ambassador feature would be a better way to do this.