cross-posted from: https://communick.news/post/2494298
If you are not aware, sportbots is a project that mirrors Twitter accounts from popular sport reporters, players and the leagues themselves. These bots are presented as regular ActivityPub actors, which means that they can be followed from Mastodon and any other AP service that is oriented towards microblogging.
With my work on Fediverser and the ActivityPub Toolkit, I’m realizing that we could do something similar for Lemmy. The Fediverser system could keep a database of these bots accounts and then map them to the relevant Lemmy instances/communities.
I’d like to get some opinions on how best to do this. Here are some of my ideas, in order of preference:
- Reach out to the developer behind sportbots.xyz and ask them to add this integration directly, to make sure that the bots post not just to Mastodon-like systems, but to groups as well.
Pros: it can be very straightforward. No new bots being created on the Fediverse. Cons: the code seems to be closed, so we have to rely on the dev to implement this.
- Add the functionality to Fediverser to map mastodon/twitter/bluesky accounts to Lemmy mirror bots, and also map these accounts to the specific communities where they should be posting.
Pros: Accounts could be eventually be used by the real owner. Open source. Cons: More bots in the Fediverse (not at alien.top scale, though). Not that many Lemmy admins seem interested in deploying Fediverser so far.
- Create a separate project from Fediverser that does what sportbots is doing, but focused on Lemmy.
Pros: most flexible. Could be easier for other people to run it if interested. I would be sure to open source it. Cons: It’s yet-another project that I would be taking on, and I don’t have any more bandwidth for new projects unless they are guaranteed to bring some revenue.
Please, let’s avoid any “who cares about sports?” or “I only want organic content here” type of discussion. We need content here if we want to get more people to stay active and if you don’t care about sports or the bots, just feel free to block them.
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No. If it’s interesting, a person will post it.
Lots of microblogging is garbage. Automating it into Lemmy would not be helpful.
There are a lot of well-meaning bots that bring posts here from other places, but they do more harm than good because we end up with a lot of low-quality posts that have been vetted by no one, and a low ratio of commenters/comments relative to a big flood of posts. So the result is a ton of posts with 0 or very few comments and low average quality.
If the only posts here were posts that someone decided was worth making, we’d have fewer, higher-quality posts, and more comments per post.
Also, with the quality of Twitter and Reddit deteriorating, it doesn’t help to import those shitty dying cultures here. We should be building new cultures.
a lot of low-quality posts that have been vetted by no one
It would be posts made by relevant reporters. So some type of vetting has been done already - by their own editors. ;)
Also: this could be implemented in a way that only presents a queue of posts to moderators, and moderators could then choose what gets published.
quality of Twitter and Reddit deteriorating
This is not really relevant. The idea is to get just the posts from the sport reporters, not the whole comment thread.
Would it work both ways?
If you mean that posts on Lemmy would be mirrored to Twitter, no.
That’s a shame, I hoped you meant some robot solution which would mirror comments posted here.
This is in my view main issue. I heard about similar attempt to mirror some subredits here. Apparently it didn’t work for this very reason.
But why would you want your comments to be on Twitter?
So they can be responded to. The same as would be able to respond on here.
Ok, but the whole idea of Fediverser is to let people get rid of Twitter/Reddit by giving people an alternative source of content. Sending content there would make those platforms more interesting, not less.
Hello! I’m not a techie person. I’m just imagining it and thinking it would be a lot of clutter.
Maybe the individual team communities would tolerate that level of clutter, since ppl are fanatics and want to read everything about their favorite sports teams (me lol)
As Long as they are limited to one account/community so it is easy to block. But I feel it will add nothing of value.
