You can now get reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, without any ads ;)
You can now get reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, without any ads ;)
Check out !worldnews@lemmit.online. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.
Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you've seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.
You can make requests for subs to fetch at !requests@lemmit.online.
In the end we're just using lemmy and lemmit's bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.
I wonder how long until they disable RSS on reddit.
Ok, I really don't get this.
Why are y'all so focused on basically moving Reddit onto the Fediverse when you can just, y'know, either make new content that you want to see on the Fediverse... or just go back to using Reddit? Dunno about you guys, but I got away from Reddit because I don't want the Fediverse to become Reddit 2.0 in terms of content and community - I was kind of hoping more for Fediverse communities and content, not Reddit communities and content on the Fediverse. If I wanted that, I'd go on Reddit.
The problem is that Reddit as it is now is a treasure trove of good comments by some very intelligent and knowledgeable people. You can find a good answers to most of questions by adding Reddit to the search on Google.
Reddit, and that information, is still there. If you want to avoid giving them hits for advertisers, I recommend trying out teddit.net. It doesn't use the API, so is unaffected by the new changes.
I wouldn’t use Google for anything in 2023 partner. Not trying to troll your comment, but I think a lot of us just use it by habit. Given Google’s recent involvement with tracking ppl and DCMA takedowns, not to mention going after open source projects such as Invidious and YT-DL they’re no friend of our community. Just using their services let’s them monetize your data, hence supporting a company that stands against our values. I remember them removing applications from their autocomplete results like Kodi years ago, because the app “was used by pirates.” Give DDG or Brave Search a spin, once you’re used to it, it’s much better than staying on Google’s sinking ship, they’re killing themselves by selling the rankings of search results to the highest bidder versus yielding relevant information at this point.
Presumably because everyone else just wants reddit but less shit. If spez hadn't decided to go insane and tank the usability of the site, yeah, I'd still be there. Fact of the matter is that reddit still has a bunch of content I want to see, but doesn't exist over here.
So, let’s get to work making content we want to see here
My understanding is that some users dislike reddit but very much like their specific small communities in it. They want to maintain the value of their community without relying on Reddit to host the content, so they are trying to migrate to places like the Fediverse. With that being said, I only support that for smaller subs with their own established community culture. Also, transition is hard so some people want a few familiar landmarks while navigating this new land.
Tbh I don't really care about the fediverse, I just wanted to find the communities that I lost and if I can have them in one place again, the better. It's not that I can't understand why would you want the fediverse for the fediverse, but I only learned about it to do what I came to do and didn't interest me beyond that.
Nice and all but comments is what's important on Reddit not the posts themselves.
I agree with that, however there is also some value to having the posts there. For example some local subreddits that I moderate I'd love to be able to kind of "mirror" the posts occuring on reddit as often times things being posted are events, local news, or local recommendation style things. I don't want to have to manually repost all the news articles that people post for example.
It would be kinda neat to see a browser extension that could integrate these Lemmy communities in a "cross-post" style manner like Reddit does. Allow you to view both reddit and lemmy discussions based on the link.
Wouldn't such automated crossposting result in some really spammy communities without actual people filtering them?
I think reddit can afford to have so many posts in these massive subs because they have a massive community that engages with the posts by up/down voting them.
This will happen. A lot of people did this initially in Mastodon, but it just resulted in feeds getting spammed by reposts from Twitter and drowning out actual posts. Most such users just ended up getting blocked, and others stopped reposting blindly on the fear of getting blocked. My mastodon feed looks so much better without those annoying reposts.
I think that's a fair concern, but it may be a good route for smaller communities to migrate and try and grow their communities.
World News is a big reddit community so I can imagine content flooding happening.
EDIT: Also this is happening only on Lemmit.online which is designed to be a Reddit mirror. So this makes some sense for people willing to try it out or wanting it separate from the active communities.
Indeed. If it's an instance intended to mirror Reddit, it's fine as a basic backup of Reddit. We definitely don't want to encourage this behaviour in general purpose spaces, though. That'll just fill communities with comments that no one comments on, making everywhere look dead.
@BananaTrifleViolin @crunchpaste @Wander you could have a community populated by only the top posts and comments from reddit after some delay
Wow, this is just perfect. Honestly I haven't been missing much from reddit, but this is the final nail in the coffin for them since we can pick up whatever we are missing from here now. Amazing.
been using this for sometimes on on my rss reader app. Great for viewing posts without opening redditWhat app are you using for RSS?
reeder for ios
Might be https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou
What's to stop all 3rd party apps from doing the same thing? Or is it a read-only one-way kind of deal?
It's read only and it doesn't give you access to the original comments. But it works really well for stuff like news, images, etc... where the discussion is mostly not the important part.
A good idea is to create discussions on the lemmy side. What I would do is cross-post it or post it to native lemmy communities and then we can have the discussions there. For example, for news articles and stuff like that.
Of course, discussions will happen here on Lemmy. It's just a matter of these communities federating so we can all get access to them. So far they don't come up in my search from other instances.
better this way, could be made smoother but why give them content?
Probably would work to seed small communities with subreddit data, but...the maxim of "the real LPT is always in the comments" holds true (i.e. posts without comments is not what these places are about) and until users come and interact, this isn't a substitute for being a real community.
Def a decent idea to jumpstart communities, as long as people aren't too put off by the post data coming from reddit.
Love it!
Too bad it will stop working in a few days
RSS isn't the API. On the other hand if this takes off, I'd suspect that they'll end that too.
They announced that they'll also remove RSS under the original announcement post in the comments
Amazing 👏
Oh, there's a Home Assistant crossposter on Lemmit too at !homeassistant@lemmit.online . Without Reddit or Twitter I have felt very out of the loop on Home Assistant
Too bad they don't seem to be federating. Just tried signing up to that specific community from Kbin, but it doesn't show the content. Oh well, gonna keep my eye on it, regardless.
does kbin federate with kbin?
They should. You need to search for it to make it available on your instance.
Nice. Now do /buildapcsales, /gundeals, and the like.
You can request them yourself in the requests community.
I see that in your post now. Thanks for the prompt to read more closely.
Can you have this post to an existing lemmt community? Like, pipe /r/WoT to wheeloftime@lemmy.ml?
The posts that are mirrored from Reddit should stay on their own communities. Otherwise you’re getting artificial content, likely with no participation.
If it’s interesting enough, someone will repost it and start conversation.
If you visit Lemmit.world, you can post requests and they will go into a community in Lemmit.world. It's been set up as a sort of Reddit mirror, and people can subscribe to those communities from across the rest of the Thrediverse.
I think if you wanted to pipe into an existing community then you'd probably be looking at running a Bot yourself that can post the content directly into that community in the same way. It may be worth asking on Lemmit.world to see what is involved, but also on lemmy.ml to see if that is an acceptable thing to be trying on that instance.
Not sure. Probably if you run the bot yourself. I think it's open source.