@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?
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.
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.
It’s not there to be interacted with. It’s there to alert you of new posts. Like an RSS feed.
How would that even work with comments going back to Reddit? If you want to interact with Reddit just go to Reddit.
I just use lemmit to not miss news in niche communities.
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?
A 2-way bridge would require reddit’s participation. They have no incentive to do that, every move they’ve been making is in the opposite direction.
I’m talking about more of a mirror than a bridge.
Then reddit users wouldn’t see it so it would do nothing to draw them to Lemmy.
Reddit users didn’t see any of it.
I did (and I hated it haha)
I’d rather chop my own dick off, roll it in flour, eggs and bread crumbs, deep fry my dick and eat it with sour cream and sweet chili sauce than have a Reddit bridge.
Or you could just block the bridge… Like I understand wanting to chop your own dick off but for a simple thing you could block… come on.
You asked if I wanted one, I gave you my answer.
We left Reddit because we didn’t want to be part of it, we don’t want it here.
How do we get those more valuable users across then? Those that want to post quality non-AI gen content
I don’t know, it’s not something I actively think about, I like how Lemmy is atm, I like being able to have a civil discussion or be able to post something without angry people being angry, I know some live here, but they’re way more tolerable than over there.
Just let it grow organically.
How is something meant to grow organically with no advertisement?
A bridge isn’t exactly advertising tho, advertising would be telling Reddit users about Lemmy, linking posts from Lemmy to Reddit, or talking about Lemmy there in general, a bridge is just gonna make Lemmy worse in my opinion. Like I said, we came here because we didn’t like Reddit.
Word of mouth is by far the best way to advertise Lemmy.
Word of mouth is great if people genuinely talk about it, like I do my best to talk about these sorts of software but it has just turned to ‘Here we go again’ more than ‘Yeah I want to join’. Any new people I talk to about it just seem not interested.
In the wild I’ve never really met anyone that is trying to advertise anything like this, so we might need a little more than just word of mouth.
No. Go to:
- lemmit.online
- zerobytes.monster
We keep them separate for a reason. These posts get zero engagement and just litter the place. Almost no one likes them.
Plus we already have Reddit. Everyone wanting to read Reddit posts can just go there. And that even allows you to interact with the posts. The bridges here don’t even show the comments. And if you engage with the discussion, you just waste your time because that doesn’t appear on Reddit. Maybe enhance the bridge first, have it do comments as well and be both directions. We can talk after that.
But please don’t turn this place into a bot dumpster. We’re trying to have a good time here.
.world is the reddit bridge
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.
Isn’t that what we’re doing? I’m just saying what’s happened before. Personally I say do any experiment you’d like to. If it works thats great. If not, oh well.
Someone else said if it’s a two way bridge then yes. I think that’d be interesting.
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.
To me, the biggest thing missed isn’t links. And I think I’m not alone—if I was, lemmit.online would have succeeded instead of being a wasteland. The thing missed is the conversation. Without the comments, you lose 95% of the value of Reddit.
I like the idea of a single subreddit being bridged to a single lemmy community
I think @rglullis@communick.news already tried it and people didn’t seem to like it
A two way bridge - yes
Link to the instagram bridge project?
I would not be interested, personally. Either you’re like me, and still pop over to Reddit as long as certain subs have something to offer, or you’re like most of the rest here and specifically wanted away from Reddit entirely. For either use case, I don’t really see the value-add in clogging up Lemmy with Reddit noise. I graze over there, trying not to be too ideological about it but accepting it’s on a downward trend and that meaningful interaction is limited, but I actually engage with people here.
Yeah my use case would be for those smaller communities that are very user limited such as a reddit for my local area that I hate having to go back to just to check what’s going on with my local area.
Yeah, I can see that, but I kind of specifically like that what I see on Lemmy is at a more human pace and that I can talk to fellow Lemmings in any thread if I choose. Last year, some of the sports communities here were just bot-posting every single reddit topic and it was exhausting. It’s not that I think there’s no potential use case, just not compatible with how or why I use lemmy.
That is completely understandable… Would you say community based bots for those small use cases for certain people maybe make more sense than a full reddit bridge?
Yes, it needs to be on its own instance we can block.
I dunno. I guess? I’m not subscribing to any of them.
If this is a useful and interesting project for you, by all means go ahead and enjoy until and unless Reddit messes up your scraper or API access. Based on what I’m reading here though, I don’t think the more vocal lemmy users are really feeling it.
I’d subscribe to a lemmy community that was bridged. would it behave similar to a bot, that feeds information from reddit to lemmy?
Already exists. Go to lemmit.online. I use it to keep up with news from niche communities.
Short answer: No
Long answer: Fuck nooooooooooooooo
60% of the posts I see link me to reddit anyways
