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Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm having similar issues on lemmy.ml, not sure what causes it.

Well... There is the thing that I had this service running on another host at some point, it got federated with quite a few instances (including lemmy.ml and some others), and I had to reinstall it. Maybe those instances have a hard time accepting the new installation?

I'm kinda hoping it will sort itself out over time, maybe those instances just need to restart ๐Ÿคž .

Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 1 points 2 years ago

I think @tubbadu@lemmy.one wrote something to that effect (I'm still a mess with making proper links on here :/)

And I also found something else that was written in java (not javascript).

The downside from using the RSS feed is that it doesn't contain the whole body, which my scraper does fetch.

Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 2 points 2 years ago

I'm absolutely with you on that on. If anything, part of the reason I wanted this was to have some fresh content that I knew I was going to miss once after July 1st. Stuff like !itookapicture@lemmit.online for example. There's a bit too much reddit-circlejerk going on right now, even here imho.

Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 5 points 2 years ago

If that's what happens, that's what happens. ยฏ\_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

I'm just here to offer a service for people who Do like it.

Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yups. Combination of scraping and rss. With a bit of client-side throttling thrown in to stay under the radar.

Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the bot only operates on its own instance. So you can have !bestof@lemmit.online and !bestof@lemmy.ml.

Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] admin@lemmit.online 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yups. It's all done by one bot though, so you'll just have to block that to get rid of them.

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Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. (lemmit.online)
 

I have created some software that is capable of synchronising posts from Reddit to Lemmy. It's still a little rough around the edges, but it works as a such:

People can request new subreddits to be mirrored on !requests@lemmit.online. A bot (open source) will monitor the threads there, and if it finds a new request for a subreddit, it will make a new community on the Lemmit server, and add it to its monitored list. It will then make periodic checks to see if any new posts (it doesn't copy any comments) have been posted on reddit, and copy those over.

Users can then subscribe to those communities from their own lemmy instance, and from there federation will pick it up. Or at least, that's the theory. At the moment, federation is not working awesomely, and that is where my lack of fediverse knowledge comes in. Maybe it needs more time, or something is not so properly - I don't know.

Furthermore: registrations on this server are closed. The point of this service is not to become a community on its own, but to deliver, ehh, "original" content to all the rest of the Fediverse while it's going through a ramp-up phase. Besides, the instance is running on a pretty small vps, and I rather have this thing manage itself. There is a !about@lemmit.online community for further questions about the project itself though, in case people want to discuss it further.

So ehm... Let me know what you think :)