While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.
We have to recreate the environment and communities we've created on on Reddit here, so that people don't feel like they're missing out being on kbin.
That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.
I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.
We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.
At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.
Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?
We would be leveraging Reddit's own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That's the biggest L we could ever deal them.
EDIT: WASN'T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.
Okay, I've been trying to understand this for the last hour and I finally thought I did, but maybe not? Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong in this?
A magazine (or any type of group) can post to a federated site and it will replicate the data to all other federated sites. Kbin and all the Lemmy sites are federated so we share the same data right? It's just accessing it from a different server with a different UI.
Each community has a "true" version that is controlled by the hosting instance. While indeed people can access communities from other instances, those other instances may make different mod decisions, may defederate with other instances, etc.
For instance, lemmy.world users cannot access beehaw.org communities, because beehaw.org defederated lemmy.world. However, us here on kbin can access both lemmy.world communities as well as beehaw.org communities.
people on lemmy can subscribe to kbin magazines and comment (like I am now, from lemmy, hi!)
and people on kbin can subscribe to lemmy communities and comment there as well
I'm also fairly certain that Mastodon users can post to kbin/lemmy by replying to the magazine/community names
Basically, yeah. Whether something is a Mastodon post, or a Calckey note, or a PixelFed picture, or a PeerTube video, they're all encapsulated using the same formatting guidelines, and so every one of these platforms can share and view the same content.
And they share this content via mirroring.
So long as they're passing content back and forth, growing any one site or any platform contributes to them all.