Reddy is a small app that I've developped over the past few days, and I want to show it to you so you can give me your thoughts, advices and ideas for the app.
Reddy is a GTK Linux app that takes an image (PNG, JPEG, GIF) at random in a subreddit and allows you to repost it in any Lemmy community. I made it principally to share content easily on Lemmy, as Reddit becomes more and more abusive and I think having copies of some content of reddit here on Lemmy is not a bad idea.
The app comes with a few restriction to prevent abuse:
- You cannot repost the image twice in the same community
- The reddit post link will always be shown in the body of the post. To give credit where credit is due.
Also, the app fetch the title and NSFW status of the reddit post automatically, but you can change it as needed.
The app require a reddit API client id/secret (The free API seems to still be working as of now) and a Lemmy account.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about such app, if you have any concerns as an user or as an instance owner please share your thoughts!
EDIT: Reddy is out for everyone to try out on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.krafting.Reddy
It's a little bit of a Catch-22 though. They're not going to come over unless the content they're used to is already here. That's why you need the cloning.
And just wishing for it ain't going to be enough. Once the content is cloned here on Lemmy, Lemmy users can run with it from there, and they can actually contribute to the cloned content on the Lemmy side, so it's still a win-win.
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Yes that's true, every Fediverse platform is a more or less the same, poeple don't want to come because there's not enough content, so there is not enough content, and the cycle repeat itself...
Wishing won't ever help that's true, but I'm doing my part in the best way I can! I believe there are already bots that can replicate reddit posts and answer, I've seen one of these around, I don't remember which one tho...
https://lemmit.online/
There's zero-bytes-monster or something as well, isn't there?
You're doing good, TY for contributing.
FYI, while I am responding to you directly, I'm also 'Speaking to the Choir' as in may, as there's usually a negative pushback to cloning Reddit content onto Lemmy.
I always just assume it's Reddit bots trying not to lose the only advantage they have, the content they already hold/contain.
But it also could just be Lemmy users who only want a 'pure' experience, and 'larger population / market share' and success be damned.
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Bots have their utility, but should be treated with caution, as they have the risk of flooding small communities with posts which garner zero comments. It might be a good idea to aim for no more than 50% of posts (on average) being from bots.
@[email protected], would there be a way to incorporate some form of rate-limiting based on the level of human activity in the community?
See : https://lemmy.world/comment/9863709
Also, rate limiting should be implemented at the lemmy server level (if someone wanted to flood/spam a community he could write a simple script that post 1000 post per seconds easily)
Plus there are already real bot software that repost reddit content without human approbation, this app doesn't repost automatically without the user input.
But I totally understand this concern. And I'll see if this app gets abused or anything that might deteriorate our Lemmy experience.