Arguments to support the idea:

  • According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
  • People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
  • Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I’m seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news
  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I think mirroring questions and requests for help is a terrible idea, no one is going to want to answer a question here if most of them are mirrored and the original asker is not here to get the answer.

    It’s frustrating to put out a well thought out answer then realize that the person who asked will never see it.

    • rglullisOPAEnglish
      39·
      1 year ago

      Your points are valid, but turns out that the practice is showing different results:

      the original asker is not here to get the answer.

      I’m working on two-way communication. Responses to a mirrored comment here will trigger a notification to the original reddit poster and a comment to the reddit thread linking to the lemmy conversation.

      It’s frustrating to put out a well thought out answer then realize that the person who asked will never see it.

      This is not what is happening at the selfhosted communities. Turns out that a lot of the initial posts are enough to foster a discussion between people on Lemmy already.

      • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Personally, I’ve blocked most repost bots (as I see them), because of the above stated reasons. I know I’m just one data point in a statistic, but I’m one that comments, as opposed to one that just lurks.

        • rglullisOPAEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          My main goals with this tool are:

          • completely drop reddit without losing access to its content and the communities that are there.
          • create a migration path for the people who are on reddit and don’t want to give it away because there is no real alternative.

          I’m also one that comments, I just don’t want to do that on reddit anymore. I want to be able to do that on Lemmy, and have the two-way bridge until the community here is self-sustainable. This is how I think this tool can be helpful.