@asklemmy@lemmy.world Would you like a Reddit Bridge?
We already have a Twitter Bridge for Mastodon and an Instagram Bridge is being worked on by the same .makeup team / person.
Would you like to see Reddit Bridged / Mirrored so you could see the posts you’ve been ‘missing’ off here?
I’d subscribe to a lemmy community that was bridged. would it behave similar to a bot, that feeds information from reddit to lemmy?
What is a bridge?
There are, or there used to be, comms that just regurgitated reddit posts. They didn’t last very long.
A bridge in this case is just a easy way to automate a fake instance that will have the Reddit content from subreddits to be transfered across to Lemmy and other Forum based Fediverse Instance.
So instead of people manually doing it, it will be mostly automated (Apart from having to follow the instance community first like any other lemmy instance)
Yeah, there have been a few bot comms that did that.
No one here is ever a part of the conversation, that’s the problem that it always comes to. OP isn’t going to respond to any comments or care at all about the post.
I think it would be good to have a proper talk with the Lemmy community if someone was to create this project again as it would make sense as you lot will be the ones that ‘gain’ from it more than Mastodon or Misskey users.
If it didn’t do two-way bridging of comments I wouldn’t really see much point.
And Reddit would ban any accounts used for that pretty quickly.
It would be most likely a one way system but most reddit users seem to not want to move across as they think they will miss something (what I understand with things like local communities).
It takes sense in someways for smaller communities to be bridged to allow those users to move across and not miss anything.
A two way bridge - yes
I think @rglullis@communick.news already tried it and people didn’t seem to like it
lemmit.online already mirrors Reddit subs and posts.
There were attempts to mirror comments as well but that was awful. It looked like there was a lot of Lemmy activity but it couldn’t mirror people’s answers back so you were just shouting into a void. And it drowned out all the real discussions because of course the Reddit stuff had a lot more activity.
At least it’s a good attempt at showing Reddit users that they could move across and not loose anything, getting one user across at a time is the goal with this sort of thing wouldn’t it?
Every post I saw on lemmit was devoid of comments. With no OP and no other commenters, there was never a reason to see those posts in the first place and I blocked it.
