from schemes@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 07 Feb 01:13
https://lemmy.world/post/25244059
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/25243870
I recently started messing around with ActivityPub, Mastodon and Lemmy and created LemmyLink, an open-source bot that seamlessly bridges Reddit and Lemmy. Triggered by the phrase “LemmyLink!” in a Reddit post title, body, or comment, the bot automatically creates a corresponding post on your chosen Lemmy instance. This allows Bidirectional post and comments between Reddit and Lemmy by triggering a Reddit bot.
Feel free to play around with it on r/LemmyLink. Simply include “LemmyLink!” anywhere in your post title, body or comment on the LemmyLink sub. This is setup on my own Lemmy instance lemmylink.com currently not federated and marked as a bot to avoid spamming the Fediverse.
There are some pros and cons to bridging communities but I think if done with transparency and user opt-in it could serve as an interesting way to bring more users in to the Fediverse. But, I’m curious what others think.
How LemmyLink Works
Only works for Subreddits and Lemmy communities specified in the code Reddit users include “LemmyLink!” in their Reddit post or comment LemmyLink posts the Reddit comment or post to Lemmy LemmyLink responds to the Reddit post or comment with link back to the Lemmy post The code is rough so go easy on me but it is available on GitHub: github.com/ateames/LemmyLink
Feel free to fork it, suggest improvements, or simply try it out.
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No, thank you.
Cool project but nah.
Even though many fediverse users would not be interested on this, I could see a use case for this.
This sounds interesting.
I think the idea in itself is good. Imagining an instance where a whole lot of reddit communities mirror just for safekeeping. Using this will likely get you banned from reddit in 10 seconds though. It is a very powerful way of stripping reddits walled garden so they will fight it tooth and nail. What we need is legislation to protect something like this.
I actually like the idea that reddit and Lemmy do a cross platform. If content creators on fediverse can post to fediverse and reddit they wouldn’t have opportunity cost in moving to the fediverse and moving content from reddit to Lemmy would give More content