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I have just realised that alien.top seems to be mirroring reddit accounts, posts and comments, without labelling them as such. What is the point of this one way mirroring? As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave. There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.

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[-] rglullis@communick.news 36 points 1 year ago

without labelling them as such

All accounts are marked as bots.

What is the point of this one way mirroring?

The tool is to help reddit users migrate to Lemmy. By going to the portal, reddit users can "take over" their reddit mirror account and get started on Lemmy already subscribed to the same communities they subscribed on reddit.

There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.

I'm also working on two-way mirroring, but even without it is already very useful... Do you know the "rule" of 90/9/1? On every social media network, 90% of the users are just lurking. 9% participate in the discussion occasionally and 1% are prolific participants. In my case, thanks to fediverser, I managed to unsub from almost 40 subreddits I was subscribed, but I managed to bring this number to 2 (/r/fediverse and /r/redditalternatives)

As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave.

I'm not going to say which to avoid the Streisand effect, but I'm seeing some communities that already have interesting conversations between organic users which could have only have started because of some comment thread that has been mirrored.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Oh wow that's cool, I was wondering how this would be different from Lemmit. Really cool

How does 2 way mirroring work? How are you planning to fund / keep the instance stable?

[-] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 1 year ago

How does 2 way mirroring work?

That will depend on a few things:

  • If it's an user that has "converted" via alien.top's portal, we can work as a real reddit client and send message on behalf of the user.
  • If the lemmy user is not on alien.top but wants to enable a two-way bridge, then we will have to do an authentication dance and send messages with passcodes to both reddit and lemmy.
  • If the user does not want a bridge, we can still send a message to the reddit thread via another bot.

The last one would be the easiest to implement, but I'm avoiding releasing this because it might be taken down due to spam.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 6 points 1 year ago

Regarding "how to fund it". This is an open source project, so you can sponsor me via github, but the best way you can help is by signing up to my "proper" hosting service.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I like the idea. Did notice an error in the about page though:

We believe that the big traditional social media platforms have become *too big for their own good. Too much power concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs in Silicon Valley is leading to an internet that is closed and not with the best interests of the people in mind.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds cool, looking forward to seeing it in action

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