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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can't tell if that would be useful or spammy.

I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there's a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure, if most of the posts are just links to reddit, it could push people away. If it's just like the actual image it could work. It'd probably be better to just do it manually for communities you're personally interested in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Respectfuly, please don't. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they're honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.

I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.

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

Yeah, that’s exactly why I was asking. I figured this might be the sentiment.