This might be a controversial idea - and I’m not sure how feasible it is, but could the bot modify the upvote count of the post in this instance when the Reddit post is pulled in, to match the upvote count from Reddit at the time of import? I personally glance at the upvote count a lot when scrolling, and it’s a little jarring that all the posts are at 1.
It's probably technically feasible, because I control both the bot and the server. But it would require some hacky stuff (I don't known any Rust, the language Lemmy is built in). And beside, it would feel rather cheaty. It wouldn't just mess with how it would appear on this server, but on other servers as well - they probably wouldn't take kindly to that kind of manipulation. Nor should they.
So ehm.. No.
Ah, I hasn’t considered how that might affect other instances’ “all” feeds. Yeah, that sounds like a quick way to get defederated everywhere. Oh well, womp womp
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