While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.

We have to recreate the environment and communities we’ve created on on Reddit here, so that people don’t feel like they’re missing out being on kbin.

That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.

I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.

We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.

At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.

Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?

We would be leveraging Reddit’s own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That’s the biggest L we could ever deal them.

EDIT: WASN’T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU’RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    The best thing we can do is be active here. Make the effort to get involved, post , report idiots and be civil. This goes beyond reddit, it is about getting out from under the thumb of corporate control. We can’t have free expression if the narritive is being controlled.

    • tikitaki@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      100% agree

      our social media sites need to be open source and decentralized. any other way will lead to the slow inevitable march of enshittification

    • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Also we have networks here we can draw upon, devs , artists , folks who make videos, people who write, etc we can. Ask them for help to create videos and promotional material to quickly explain the fediverse in a simple and concise way.

  • jasonhaven@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    Kbin needs quite a few UX improvements, speaking as a designer/photographer

    I don’t know anything about development though

  • Mintyytea@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    I like your idea :) Has anyone contacted the 3rd party app developers to see if they want to make any apps or bot scripts for this fediverse?

  • tangelo@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    It’s trivially easy, but you’d be pulling in a lot of noise along with the signal, creating more moderation headaches for yourself (think of all the low-effort and spam stuff you usually have to filter out). You’d be better off scraping the content you want from primary sources directly rather than mirroring every post that goes to your old forum.

    • llama
      0·
      2 years ago

      I think the key is you don’t actually mirror every single post, just posts that meet specific guidelines like so many upvoted and no self posts or reddit images

      • tangelo@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        That seems reasonable, although there is no telling what a highly voted post might constitute under new management (is that too paranoid?). I’d personally take a scrap and build approach here, or at least manually approve the incoming results (hybrid approach) if they’re being delayed anyway due to waiting on vote generation.

  • enki@feddit.de
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’ve thought about it, but I’m not sure if it’s legally allowed or if reddit dmcas you. Would be down to join the effort, it shouldn’t be impossible. But compute heavy.

    • llama
      0·
      2 years ago

      Just don’t index the reddit self posts or images hosted on reddit. They can’t tell us not to index links to other people’s websites.

    • Deref@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      There’s no way to enforce that. Bots can change IP address and not all instances have a dmca page.

  • funkyb@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but even working a full time mid-career corporate job, I think I can make time for both. It doesn’t have to be either-or.

  • LostCause@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    Agreed, I‘m actually on somewhat of an upvoting and commenting spree and creating accounts on all sorts of instances. I know I can move around too, but with defederating being a thing I prefer multiple accounts. Kbin so far visually is the nicest to me and it loads super fast!

  • Strolleypoley@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    I think it’s mainly about introducing new users to the fediverse and making it easier to understand, I’m glad I found out about this stuff and am happy to learn more.

    • BasicallyClean@kbin.socialOP
      0·
      2 years ago

      I think it is for a lot of magazines, however our magazine and subreddit requires timely news to really get going.

  • MartianInAHumansBody@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Agreed about the mirror of posts. Even if the engagement isn’t as high yet, if people at least feel they can get the rough news feed they are used to, they’ll more likely jump over

  • cowvin@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    If you want an even dirtier approach, you’d make a browser extension that scrapes reddit as your browse it and forwards links you upvote to kbin / lemmy or whatever. This has the benefit of being indistinguishable from regular browser traffic as far as reddit is concerned so they won’t notice.

  • TGRush@forum.fail
    0·
    2 years ago

    Mirroring would be trivial, but you’d have to either scrape content yourself or pay for the API (soon)

  • lixus98@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Devs (like me) can help, the main issue is hosting the bot somewhere and covering the costs, but I think is a good idea.