Bots of this type have appeared recently, and people are asking if it’s okay to use them. I’m not sure about this either, so I think it would make sense to ask users.
These bots follow some subreddits on Reddit and automatically post it to Lemmy when a post is created there.
I’ve seen an example site for it: lemmit.online. This instance is dedicated solely to mirroring Reddit posts to the Lemmy instance.
Maybe instead of mirroring to a community on Lemmy NSFW, we can subscribe to lemmit.online via Lemmy NSFW. This way we could have kept Lemmy NSFW free of bots. Currently, even if accepted, I believe it should be done under admin control to prevent duplicates.
Here is the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRw82byN
I’m open to suggestions.
Hmm I was thinking of making the same. Some communities are just dead till they get bootstrapped with some little spam and then ppl feel encouraged to participate.
Someone else here had a smarter idea honestly of haveing a 48 hour buffer and using the reddit apis up vote ratio, and total karma to filter out alot of the spam. Honestly when I built this I had missed that part of the api, so I’m probably going to rework it in a bit
Id be super interested in doing something like this, using a bot to “seed” a community with content until it picks up steam. Not like 50 posts all at once but maybe one ever few hours to help people find the comunity
I think this will work well if it is very limited - get some content in (ideally by getting permission from the 3 biggest posters and pulling theirs over) but then ban it.
HFY, Admiral_cloudberg, certain meme community’s… NSFW subs could do it by asking one poster
Even just having an easier way to post, like post scheduling etc. Ive got content to seed my community but posting it so it doesnt spam is difficult