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Is the rslashmonero experiment funneling our community back to Reddit inadvertantly? (monero.town)

submitted 2 years ago by mister_monster@monero.town to c/meta@monero.town

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Something to think about. It is pointless to interact with any of those posts directly here, so as a result they get no engagement. They're just links to Reddit, and I feel like they're just funnelling engagement back there. I can't help but notice, possibly incorrectly, that activity here sharply dropped as soon as that bot went active.

If we want the content here, wouldn't it make more sense to pull non self post content directly and post it as a first class Lemmy post here without linking to the reddit post?

If our goal is to make this the new Monero home, wouldn't a better approach be adding this site to the sidebar on the subreddit, or having automod inform every poster about it's existence? Is moving here even our goal anymore?

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[–] mister_monster@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago

So now mirroring comments to reddit is a different story and is most certainly not going to happen. Reddit API changes, all Lemmy comments would be posted from the same account, that's just a lot.

Mirroring comments from reddit means the bot has to check every such and such time, without a reddit API mind you, scraping the HTML, post them, then delete spam ones, then it can't sync upvotes...

A lot more than you'd expect is involved with something like that, easily an order of magnitude more complexity than just posting posts.