I’ve been seeing a lot of users from alien.top commenting in various threads (mainly sports) lately. They only caught my attention because they are all flagged as bots and I typically manually block most bots (not all because there are some I like). For every one of them their entire post history consists of 1-2 comments or...
real lemmy users engaged in discussions based on the reddit comments many times already
Yeah, I know. I’m seeing the same at !main and !emacs. It’s really cool, and it will be even cooler when I make it two-way.
I first have to find an instance that would be okay with your software.
I’m thinking of building a whole network of different instances based around specific interests. I have for selfhosted (which will be for devops in general), soccer, basketball, american football, tennis, crypto/blockchain. Maybe I should set up one for TV/Movie/Music discussion. Any good ideas for a domain name? :)
Okay, I am starting to realize that most people are looking at the word “bot” and stop reading the rest of the description.
The point of fediverser is not about creating an army of bots or a fully automated content firehose. The point of fediverser is to have a tool that gives a way for humans to bring content that they want to have on the fediverse. The mirrored instance and the bot accounts are just a mechanism to (1) facilitate the curating process, (2) automate the posting of content that has been curated and (3) to keep a bridge with Reddit which can help redditors to signup to Lemmy in a frictionless-way.
All this work started because I spent almost 3 months bootstraping !emacs by doing the following:
checking /r/emacs.
Manually posting one or two links that I found there to the lemmy community
Realizing that the majority of content on the community is from “self posts” with questions
sending DMs to the authors of these self-posts, telling them about the community and inviting them to join my instance.
I’ve repeated multiple times in this thread and in the original announcement, but I can do it yet again: the main usage of fediverser is for people that do not want to use reddit but still are interested in interacting with niche communities.
I do agree that there is some truth to “The Medium is the Message”, but I honestly don’t see that much of a difference in medium between social media networks that are very similar in their design.
It’s not directed towards us, and the OP wouldn’t ever see it.
I have more than a handful of people already that signed up to !emacs after I saw a question they posted on /r/emacs and I sent them a DM asking them to post their question here as well. There is nothing stopping this tool (it’s actually my next item to work on) to streamline this process.
What is alien.top and why do all the users from there show up as bots and have no history?
I’ve been seeing a lot of users from alien.top commenting in various threads (mainly sports) lately. They only caught my attention because they are all flagged as bots and I typically manually block most bots (not all because there are some I like). For every one of them their entire post history consists of 1-2 comments or...
Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?
I’ve posted before about my fediverser project, and I am now looking to see who is interested in participating....
Fediverser: bring content and users from legacy social media networks into the fediverse (github.com)