For those struggling to wean yourselves off Reddit, someone has made a bot that copies posts from subreddits to Lemmy so you can follow the subreddits from here. I made a post about doing something similar a couple of weeks ago.
They have their own instance at lemmit.online. The r/newzealand is clone is at !newzealand@lemmit.online.
Most of the communities there aren't showing up in the search here without the full link yet, so go to their list of local communities, open a community you want to subscribe to, then copy the link that looks like !newzealand@lemmit.online from the sidebar into the search on Lemmy.nz (or your local instance). If the subreddit you want isn't listed on lemmy.online, you can post a request in !requests@lemmit.online. It was pretty much instant for me.
8 Comments
cloventt@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 3y
Interesting implementation. Not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing that it puts the “I’m a bot” message at the start of the post. It means all the posts look the same when scrolling a feed, but they are also clearly marked as bot content.
Personally I won’t be using that particular community - I’d rather foster organic content that is native to lemmy. Some of the larger Mastodon instances (including the .nz one) ban autobot-posting such as this because it actually decreases engagement.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3y
I'm using it for a few things that I've been missing. When I get home from my holiday I'll try create those communities
RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3y
This is @Dave's comment from the daily kōrero:
RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3y
Personally, I think it's fine for people to cross-post stuff they think is relevant to the communities here. I'd prefer it over links to Reddit, because it lets people engage with the content here. I doubt posts in !newzealand@lemmit.online will get nearly as much attention as the ones on lemmy.nz. The Lemmit bot makes it pretty obvious that it's taken from Reddit. I think one guideline would be not to remove the bot's text from the post, nor the "cross-posted from" text that's generated when it's cross-posted here.
As for question posts, it would be a weird thing to cross-post. I guess if someone wanted to give credit to the OP on Reddit. I can't see that happening too often, unless it's a pretty broad question that generates discussion - in which case, it doesn't seem to matter to me if there's a separate discussion going on here.
Aaron@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 3y
I think just posting the content (headline and link) here would be better than posting links to the reddit discussion.
RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 3y
Yeah, if it's a link to a news story or website, I agree, it should just be a direct link. I'm mostly thinking about content created by Reddit users and posted up there themselves.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 3y
Yeah, post the link to the original URL/website and feck possibly sending any traffic to spez
BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 3y
Thanks. That's quite useful