Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Samantha Xavia @bikersgo.social 2d ago

@lemmy.world Would you like a Reddit Bridge?

@[email protected] 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?

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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
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.
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.
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 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
Short answer: No

Long answer: Fuck nooooooooooooooo
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.
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.
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.
  
  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.
I think @[email protected] 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.
  
  I think most of us know why we're here.
  
  Yes
No.

Follow up question: if such a bridge did exist, how would one go about blocking it?
- I'm not sure on Lemmy but on Mastodon and Sharkey an admin can block the whole instance or you can personally block the users or communities yourself.
A two way bridge - yes
I'd subscribe to a lemmy community that was bridged. would it behave similar to a bot, that feeds information from reddit to lemmy?
- Already exists. Go to lemmit.online. I use it to keep up with news from niche communities.
Link to the instagram bridge project?
I would for more niche stuff, but I’m guessing my instance would defederate from it.
- Sadly most instances seem to do that with the other Bridges, It's one of the reasons I like running my own instance. Maybe in the future I'll think about starting a Lemmy Instance but currently my money wouldn't allow that sadly.
60% of the posts I see link me to reddit anyways

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