Is there any way we could 'sync' with Reddit to get the same content?
Please, leave Reddit behind friend.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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Is it purely down to less people on Feddit vs Reddit? or some other reason?
It's a numbers game - more people = more posters = more content.
Is there any way we could ‘sync’ with Reddit to get the same content?
There are bots you can run that would bring over the content from Reddit but you wouldn't want it into a standard community as it leads to a lot of posts flooding the community and you get very little engagement. There are bot instances - I'll have a nose around and see what I can find. There's usually a community mirroring most medium to large sub's.
Also, be the change you want to see - if you find a good article, throw it in here. It's the work of moments.
I get your point on "syncing" too many posts which might cause little engagement. It would be nice to have more than the 2-5 articles that are currently what I'm roughly seeing. I'd like a balance of around 10-15, this would hopefully help with more engagement but not too much!
If you can find anything about the bots then I'll certainly try and help. Even without the bots I'll start to help with content. As I said, I was worried about backlash from just copying the content from Reddit but that doesn't sound like it's an issue.
If you can find anything about the bots then I’ll certainly try and help.
I can't find a Lemmy not bringing in the UK Politics sub but it looks like you can post a request to: !requests@zerobytes.monster If the bot starts dragging over Reddit posts then you can subscribe that rather than popping back to Reddit.
Even without the bots I’ll start to help with content.
That's the spirit.
As I said, I was worried about backlash from just copying the content from Reddit but that doesn’t sound like it’s an issue.
As long as you are linking to the original content and not just back to Reddit, then no-one will care where you found it first - I use a range of things to dig for new news.
Is there really not that much? I know there's a general election this week so there's probably more than usual, but if you look at local it's almost all politics!
You can either do a reddit post bot, or post the links yourself, or post content yourself.
I get the frustration, bc it frustrates me to (not with the politics category though) But what annoys me, is all everyone does, is downvote everything that isn't anime, video games, Linux and politics, and then they also don't post anything themselves either.
I'm not directing this towards you, but they complain about lack of content but don't want to post any themselves
Yea, no problem sticking their hands out for content, complaining about it, then either downvoting, leaving shit comments, but then offering absolutely nothing themselves.
I don't get it
Completely agree, create the sort of content you would like to see and others will join in.
Thanks for your answer. No worries on saying that I should help with the content, that does make sense. While I was on Reddit I would just "consume" the content without contributing as there were others to do it (Reddit probably had lots of users which probably helped).
I'd be happy to try and help, I wasn't too sure if I could just copy the titles and links from Reddit and that be OK? or if that would flag up as me spamming Feddit or something. I could start by just copying the first 10 articles/stories that were new. That would help with some additional content here on Feddit. It would obviously be better if we could somehow automate that but I'm not sure how to do that.
Thinking about automating this, if there was an easy way, then we could do other communities that are trying to replicate the Reddit ones then that would help with content on Feddit and might help others to move over
You're good I know you're not complaining like that because once you do start posting, it's gunna get kinda annoying that no one else does.
If I were you, don't link to reddit in your posts. You can do that in our community !redditshit@hilariouschaos.com we don't mind that because well it's reddit shit lol
I don't think most instances would like that, so if I were you, when you see a political reddit post you want to share here?
Click on the link from the reddit post and copy the link directly from the news site, and paste it in your lemmy post. That way it goes directly to the news site if someone clicks and not to reddit so you don't get anyone complaining to you.
Maybe get with db0 on how to do a reddit post automatic bot. They should be able to advise I would think