What other fediverse apps/services do you use? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[-] fievel@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago
  • Bookwyrm (~= Goodreads/StoryGraph)
  • Mastodon (~= Twitter)
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Bot to aggregate what Lemmy community is reading (vlemmy.net)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@vlemmy.net to c/books@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/328546

If you are from reddit, there was a subreddit called "RedditRead" which aggregated automatically all books title found in "what are you reading" threads and making a post for each one with a link to Goodreads. I think this was great and would be a good idea to implement on Lemmy, but with the following changes:

  • Due to the concept of federation, less centralized, I think the bot should takes it's input from several communities (!Books@lemmy.world; !Books@lemmy.ml; !Literature@beehaw.org; ...)
  • It should not promote non-free service like Goodreads but rather use open library or bookwyrm api to fetch it's data and link to those free services

What do you think? I may be interested in developing something (using some existing bot framework, should not be too difficult), but I will not be able to host it (unless it can be done for free - without too much assle).

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Bot to aggregate what Lemmy community is reading (vlemmy.net)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@vlemmy.net to c/books@lemmy.ml
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If you are from reddit, there was a subreddit called "RedditRead" which aggregated automatically all books title found in "what are you reading" threads and making a post for each one with a link to Goodreads. I think this was great and would be a good idea to implement on Lemmy, but with the following changes:

  • Due to the concept of federation, less centralized, I think the bot should takes it's input from several communities (!Books@lemmy.world; !Books@lemmy.ml; !Literature@beehaw.org; ...)
  • It should not promote non-free service like Goodreads but rather use open library or bookwyrm api to fetch it's data and link to those free services

What do you think? I may be interested in developing something (using some existing bot framework, should not be too difficult), but I will not be able to host it (unless it can be done for free - without too much assle).

Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless by fievel in c/technology@beehaw.org
[-] fievel@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago

If this reddit change did not occurred, I probably never had tried Lemmy (even if I'm in OSS world for 20+ years now). First thought is that I don't think communities going black or mods leaving reddit will do anything to reddit, it's so big and alternative are somehow a niche for geek that they will not loose most of their user base. For mods they'll find out some way ... On the other hand, I don't care, I'm happy here on the fediverse, I participated more discussion here in 1 month than in years on reddit. I had bad experience on my first posts on reddit (probably not interesting enough for some and then downvoted a lot), and I think that I just always thought if my post will be appreciated or not and so and finally just didn't post. I don't have this feeling here.

fievel

joined 1 year ago