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About Lemmit

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About the lemmit.online service and its software.

Got questions, complaints, suggestions? This is the place.

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Lemmitors who request subreddits that are useless without the comments, I created a bot that scrapes comments as well (github.com)
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See the bot in action here!

My instance running Leddit

Click here for a more detailed explanation about the bot's purpose

This bot is intended to be self-hosted. Unfortunately, I can't operate a public instance that takes subreddit requests because of how long syncing comments takes. For comparison, Lemmit takes 21 minutes to sync all of the subreddits on this instance using the old system, but Leddit takes the same amount of time to sync 3 subreddits with around 500k subscribers each once an hour. Smart syncing is planned, but it won't decrease the amount of time taken to sync big and active subreddits.

If you need help setting up an instance, feel free to ask questions in this thread or on the Leddit instance's community.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What does this mean for us stupid people? Ooga booga

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Are you asking about what the bot does or how to use this bot?

What it does: The same thing as lemmit.online, but it copies the comments of the original Reddit post to Lemmy as well.

How to use:

  1. Set up a Lemmy instance and make the rate limit very high (I'm happy to make a detailed guide on this if it's needed)
  2. Create an account for the bot
  3. Create a Lemmy community that will store the crossposts
  4. Download the bot's code from Github
  5. Edit the files named .env and config.yaml so the program knows the bot's username, password, what subreddits to fetch content from, and how often
  6. Run the program
  7. Done! Read Reddit posts and comments directly on Lemmy