This app looks so good that it should have its own community, if it doesn't already...
Does anybody know if it is gentle with the battery?
I'm a bit concerned as this is an always running service I guess? I suppose you can limit this (I can't test this myself as I'm maining this account, I'm not coming back to lemmy.world).
I'm not sure, but if it gets the ability to sync comments and posts across instances, i'd love that feature!
I highly highly highly doubt that will ever happen. I don’t see how you could achieve such a thing without a fundamental rewrite of Lemmy itself. Or the other option is you basically have a bot going around replicating everything you do, subjecting everyone to your echo. And it’d still not be a perfect sync, because people could only reply to one of the comments/posts
I agree with you, if a third party app comes with a solution similar to what he's asking it will be the ultimate spam bot lol.
Lemmy needs to support this in its API to a proper implementation.
How would that work, even conceptually? I'm having trouble understanding what this would even mean. Only one account can make a post or a comment. The only way I can think where this might make sense is to change Lemmy itself so that an account is independent of an instance. Signing up for a second instance would "sync" your account to it. Viewing a user's profile might show all of the instances where the account lives. A post or comment author would be this multi-instance account. Wow, there would be so many issues to solve to do this, though. Moderation through blocking or defederation would become extremely difficult. And what would an accounts "username" be, given that the same handle may not be available on all instances?
That said, I think this tool is already pretty neat, even if it never attempts to solve the comment/post-syncing feature.
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