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@lemmy.world Would you like a Reddit Bridge?
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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
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 did (and I hated it haha)
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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
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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.
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
Nice, question asked and answered
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No thanks.
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.
.world is the reddit bridge
Good Lord no
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.
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No, I came here to get away from that shit hole.
Short answer: No
Long answer: Fuck nooooooooooooooo
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.
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No.
Follow up question: if such a bridge did exist, how would one go about blocking it?
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.
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