@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?
No, I came here to get away from that shit hole.
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.
fuck no
I quit reddit for a reason
I thought most people moved from Reddit due to the way the platform was managed with AI stuff and the API
admins, monetization, AI moderators (I got banned for telling people NOT to use “gay” as an insult), advertisements, privacy rights violations, and spez.
if I can read the content without all that ^ shit, then I’m all for it. leech their content, give them nothing.
I left because Steve Huffman destroyed everything good about it in the name of money.
Not only did he destroy it, but he was a smug shithead about it.
Those things had a cascade effect.
API change > 3rd party tools moderators depended on no longer functioned > mods quit because they could no longer manage the subs effectively > the one sub I spent most of my reddit time on is now unrecognizable, filled with alt-right nut bars, 3/4 of which I assume are bots.
I don’t want a bridge because reddit today is not at all the reddit I used to get some entertainment from. Or I guess go ahead with a bridge, I’ll just block it and go about my merry way.
That was the straw but it was a progressively degrading experience for years before that
Short answer: No
Long answer: Fuck nooooooooooooooo
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.
Great, now I’m hungry for a battered sav
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.
bruh…
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?
Reddit users didn’t see any of it.
I did (and I hated it haha)
I don’t want to contribute over there. I want them to collapse under the weight of all the AI slop there. I prefer mastodon but at least the bridge to blue sky there isn’t supporting for-profit, ad-driven, ai driven dreck.
then leech their content without giving them advertising clicks
But there’s a lot of bad AI content in there. Why bring in the shit that drives people away?
If you want reddit content on lemmy, go get it and post it yourself. Get the good shit that drives engagement, not the putrid slop that will make people block the posting account or sub entirely.
So what is stopping a one-way bridge? Reddit content here but no content back?
If the content was interesting to the users here, it’d be posted by someone who noticed it elsewhere.
I’m much more of a fan of organic engagement here rather than bots reposting content from other sites
Nice, question asked and answered
Yeah, I have reddits I use for my local area and I’d love if I could have them bridged so I can at least see the updates and it might make a few of my locals move over here instead of reddit in the long run as they wouldn’t miss out on anything, if anything they miss less over here.
If it’s your own sub, them just post here as well. Don’t even bother bringing reddit up.
Reddit’s moderation staff was awful, but the content over there was so good
‘Was’ being the operative word.
You can request that one to be bridged
Can I? Where can I request it?
The lemmit or whatever guy allows you to request subs! :)
No thanks.
.world is the reddit bridge
Good Lord no
Can we build a bridge a burn it down when they are coming across?
It would be a one way bridge for the content that we feel are missing such as really small communities and when they move across it makes sense to get rid of it (at least a good amount of the users) so yes.
As long as the bridge is burning and preventing any of it to make it here, great.
Reddit has lost all value and is the frontpage of the dead internet.
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 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 think @rglullis@communick.news already tried it and people didn’t seem to like it
I don’t know, I burned that bridge for a reason, mainly Spez and the whole API debacle (RIP Reddit is Fun). I also don’t want to contribute to sending traffic to Reddit nor pulling posts from it.
I also don’t use X nor Instagram. If Lemmy becomes like that, I’m gonna make like a tree and fuck off.
It wouldn’t put things into Reddit but would only pull from it. But understandable if you wouldn’t want to touch it, Doesn’t it make sense to let each user on the Fediverse to choose that?
But understandable if you wouldn’t want to touch it, Doesn’t it make sense to let each user on the Fediverse to choose that?
There are already two projects that mirror/bridge Reddit posts to Lemmy. Unsurprisingly, they have very little interaction right now. I’ve subscribed to some, and even I don’t interact with those myself. Not because I hate it though, but because I find no reason to.
Yes
I think most of us know why we’re here.
But like checking reddit every two seconds as people are linking it doesn’t make sense does it?
Maybe it just sounds like you’re advocating for Reddit posts because your Lemmy feed isn’t congested with trash. And, who’s checking reddit every two seconds? Not this cookie.
Also, on a personal level, I found most of the trans communities on Reddit cringeworthy and deplorable. It’s a major factor why I left. I find people here more intelligent and open-minded, regardless of the lack of content.
