@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?
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