15
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by icystar@lemmy.cif.su to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.

Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 9 hours ago

That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.

Most people don't even recognize it's a bot.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, it is true. Check out the lemm.it instance it tried to do exactly what you're talking about about

[-] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Somebody already mentioned that, and I mentioned how all the communities are all locked and literally only the bot can post.

It also appears to only mirror reddit, with no connection to other lemmy instances.

This is not what I am talking about adding.

this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025
15 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

36309 readers
160 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS