Reddit Migration

Devs (like me) can help, the main issue is hosting the bot somewhere and covering the costs, but I think is a good idea.

The best thing we can do is be active here. Make the effort to get involved, post , report idiots and be civil. This goes beyond reddit, it is about getting out from under the thumb of corporate control. We can't have free expression if the narritive is being controlled.

Mirroring would be trivial, but you'd have to either scrape content yourself or pay for the API (soon)

I've built scrapping bots like this before. Would definitely be an interesting project.

It's trivially easy, but you'd be pulling in a lot of noise along with the signal, creating more moderation headaches for yourself (think of all the low-effort and spam stuff you usually have to filter out). You'd be better off scraping the content you want from primary sources directly rather than mirroring every post that goes to your old forum.

I’ve thought about it, but I’m not sure if it’s legally allowed or if reddit dmcas you. Would be down to join the effort, it shouldn’t be impossible. But compute heavy.

Do not make this place a mirror of reddit.

I'm not even talking about the legality of mirroring another site. You really want to give ammo to the CEO of reddit and allow him to claim that his competitors are attempting to mirror his content?? Can you imagine how he is going to use this if you do it?

Just post your own content, if you have a real interest into MMA then it should be easy.

We have to recreate the environment and communities we've created on on Reddit here, so that people don't feel like they're missing out being on kbin.

The "fear of missing out" is something you should not listen to. Do not replicate the content of reddit, why would you do that? Just create your own content. If it's news then read your sources and post the news.

We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine

Well, post something if you find it interesting. And let other people post what they think is interesting. You don't need no machinery for that. We want quality content, not the quantity delivered by a spambot machine, which in the ends are adbots, posting advertised stuff like the endless NBA stuff. If you read nothing interesting in the news then post nothing in your subs.

We must not duplicate what reddit did wrong. And the 3rd party tool is not the only thing that reddit did wrong. What reddit did wrong is content for the sake of content, for the thumb constantly swiping down. This is not good for reddit and this is not good for kbin. This is good for no one.

The quality and content of reddit collapsed, do not duplicate it here.

We want the creators, not the followers. Do not listen to the followers who are addicted to new content. I don't want people just watching the endless ribbon of news, posting a "lol" or a one liner from time to time. Are you sure that you are not the one who fears of missing out? Are you dependent on popularity or somethin'? Because it surely looks like so.

What next? You want to mirror publicfreakout so we again watch american people fight into airplanes and governors banning books on the other side of the planet? Because this is what you're gonna get.

edit: And we didn't even talk about the COST of handling automated, mirrored content. If reddit cannot pay for it then neither can Ernest.

edit: If all of you who upvoted OP instead posted something they find interesting in the subs they follow then we would not have this discussion.

Won't that become a problem when API access is highly restricted? Generally it is doable and should not be a very big project.

I like the idea of making a bot that posts news links automatically. Gives fresh content for people to interact with, without people racing over each other to get the karma of posting them first. Communities based on sports events are the simplest to do that with, you just need to set the bot to take news from some specific big sites and bam you got stuff to talk about.

I don't know about the rest of you, but even working a full time mid-career corporate job, I think I can make time for both. It doesn't have to be either-or.

Great idea! I really miss r/MMA

I think it's mainly about introducing new users to the fediverse and making it easier to understand, I'm glad I found out about this stuff and am happy to learn more.

Ah it seems I wasn't the only one who thought about this - https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38958/Bot-that-will-repost-reddit-content-to-kbin-fediverse#entry-comment-159480 !!! Fully support this idea, will join the magazine and see how I can contribute to mirroring content from Reddit to Kbin.

If you want an even dirtier approach, you'd make a browser extension that scrapes reddit as your browse it and forwards links you upvote to kbin / lemmy or whatever. This has the benefit of being indistinguishable from regular browser traffic as far as reddit is concerned so they won't notice.

@BasicallyClean It's an interesting take on how to accellerate a migration. And I hope to see it work and for kbin to grow.

I like your idea :) Has anyone contacted the 3rd party app developers to see if they want to make any apps or bot scripts for this fediverse?

draft - This is a good post. Should/can I post this post link with a short description to my mastodon account? What about my twitter account?