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
Speaking as someone who built a whole service to mirror content from Reddit to Lemmy communities (and got a lot of flak for it), I feel like we already have our share of repost bots and mirroring tools. It seems like a fun project, Reddit's API is "generous" enough to let do this for free and is very quick to see the results. But in all honesty all of Lemmy is starting to feel like just a small crowd of people who have nothing really interesting to say, so all we can do is regurgitate content from Reddit. The dwindling number of active users support this, most of the niche communities are either dead or kept by stubborn people who don't mind talking to themselves.
So, apologies in advance for the negativity and for using your announcement as an excuse for a rant, but: do you think we can think of something better to do to help the ecosystem beyond yet-another repost tool?
I totally understand your point here.
However, this app is a bit different, because it's not to automate reposting everything, I built it to repost only interesting stuff, I do have some niche communities where I'm the only one posting, but thanks to this app I can just fetch random reddit post, and if I find them funny/interesting, I can share it instantly to the fediverse.
People on every social media will always repost stuff from other social media, this app is just to make this a bit easier!
I don't think number of user are dwindling, see https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy, I think it is just stabilizing a bit after a "hype" start.
Also, if you have any idea of an app that would help the eco system better than another reposting tool, please shoot your idea, if I can make that happen I'd be happy to help!