admin 4mo ago • 50%
I'll consider your opinion.
admin 12mo ago • 100%
Looks like it's working. Time for a beer!
admin 1y ago • 100%
It's done: !theyknew@lemmit.online.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Ah, I guess I must have overlooked that part. There are several reasons for not wanting to allow signups.
One is quite simple, cost. Right now this is running on a small, single core instance. It often stutters (especially when handling video updates), and that is not an issue, since that just means it's going to take small while before updates are sent out. But you wouldn't want to have that delay for actual users. Right now the costs are quite manageable, if I have to scale up in order to provide a fluent experience for its users, not so much.
Most of the other reasons come down to the responsibility of having to provide a home to any outside users that sign up. I don't have the interest or time to maintain a community of people, nor to guarantee the uptime that such a server would require. It also wouldn't work. The largest Lemmy instance in existence, lemmy.world, has defederated from this instance. So any users that sign up here, would be devoid from content on there. And as you said, any other instance can decide to do so at any time (in fact, I very much suggest they do so in the FAQ).
I could go on, but I think you get my drift.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Heya,
I still need to create some tools to make to easily add new subreddits to the bot. I'll probably get around to that this weekend, and then I'll add /r/theyknew and notify you. As far as I'm concerned, it's a great contender for synchronisation/archiving.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Can't blame you for that. Personally, I still think it excels at content where communication with OP is irrelevant, like !itookapicture@lemmit.online, !todayilearned@lemmit.online or !dataisbeautiful@lemmit.online. And by far best example of this, if you look at the subscriber count, is nsfw content.
admin 1y ago • 75%
Nope. That would be very hard to implement, and probably very confusing and disliked by other lemmy users.
admin 1y ago • 100%
I don’t know how the karma thresholds work behind the scenes, but might I suggest for the bot to do a “top for” sort instead? Like it will only repost top content for the past 6 hours only. This will also help get more quality content as well and avoid reposting low effort/quality posts.
This is effectively already kinda how it works. For each subreddit it periodically (anywhere between every 30 minutes to every 12 hours, based on subscriber count and posts per day) requests the "hot" content feed. It then checks each post if it has at least 20 upvotes, and a 80% upvote to downvote ratio. Those numbers are configurable, but that's what they're currently set to - I believe they're a good mix between filtering out the complete garbage while still making sure it doesn't miss good content is.
admin 1y ago • 100%
@criitz@reddthat.com @Halosheep@lemm.ee @Cagi@lemmy.ca @Hanabie@sh.itjust.works @SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml @WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de: First of all: those are some wonderful usernames. Secondly: I have taken your concerns to heart and made some changes. See my update here: https://lemmy.ml/post/6190779.
A few months ago, I launched the Lemmit instance and bot ([@bot@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/u/bot)). Primarily, this was to help me stay up to date with some of the content I'd leave behind on Reddi. Additionally, I wanted to give back to the community, so I made it possible for anyone to request the archiving of subreddits to the Lemmit instance. However, this came with some unintended consequences. Notably, the most subscribed community on the instance has been [!AmItheAsshole@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/AmItheAsshole). Even though it should have been obvious that there is no way to communicate with the Original Poster, given they're on Reddit. The pushback against the bot and the instance has increased over time. A recent post, [This bot is bad for Lemmy](https://lemmit.online/post/853127), highlighted these concerns. I've also received similar feedback from admins of major Lemmy Instances and through direct PMs. As a response, last week I stopped accepting requests for archiving new subreddits. This weekend, I went a step further by discontinuing the archiving of a large amount of "interactive subreddits"—communities primarily centered around Q&A or communication with the Original Poster. This includes subs like [!AskReddit@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/AskReddit) and [!dating_advice@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/dating_advice), as well as niche and support communities. Such discussions are better hosted on Reddit or Lemmy's equivalent spaces. I've also adjusted the post karma thresholds to curb spam posts. While this probably won't appease everyone, it should reduce the bot's posting frequency. Perhaps this might prompt some admins to rethink their choice to defederate from the Lemmit instance, or the banning of the bot. I'm not expecting anyone to, and won't take it personally if you don't, but I wanted to give the community this update nonetheless. In [!about@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/about) there's a sticky post of all the Actively archived communities on the server (including NSFW ones, since that is not public without logging in), as well as the list of communities for which archiving is now disabled. Cheers!
admin 1y ago • 100%
What.
You want to mirror a Lemmy community onto Lemmit? :s
Also, see sidebar.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Funnily enough, it initially was the intention to have the bot check up on everything it posted, to see if it got deleted. In that way, it would outsource moderation to Reddit. I never got around to that, and am not sure I ever will.
So for now, handing out moderation to others is a good workaround. In order for me to make you a mod, you'll need to leave a comment in the community, and mention me @admin@lemmit.online.
Actually, checking out the subreddit in question, that's exactly the kind of content I want to avoid on here. Most of the posts on there are to invoke discussion, either with the OP or other members. You'd be better off starting a new community on your own instance.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Voila:
2023-10-07 17:23:54,906 - root - INFO - Community Boise is ENABLED, has 67 subscribers and 0 posts per day.
I understand your argument, and fully agree. There's over 800 communities that I have to check though, so mistakes will be made.
admin 1y ago • 100%
No problem, as far as I'm concerned, all suspensions are negotiable. Which one was it? I'll re-enable it straight away.
admin 1y ago • 100%
List of disabled communities
These communities were deemed too interactive (mostly invoking discussion with OP or the community) for Lemmit, and will not be receiving updates from the bot.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Point taken and no offense taken. Hell, I've been thinking about this for some time myself as well.
For now I have disabled the requesting of new subreddits/communities, and tightened the upvote filter to be at least 10 and have an 80% upvote ratio. It's not much, but it should limit the amount unpopular posts somewhat.
Next step is to go through the list of communities and purge all the "ghost communities" - ones that rely heavily on community participation, like for example AskReddit (221 subscribers). It's going to be tricky to make that selection though. What to do, for example, with !AmItheAsshole@lemmit.online? With 1100 subscribers, it's the most popular community on this server. Clearly people are getting something out of it, even though there are no replies to it.
I guess I'll have to figure something out.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Thanks, that means a lot.
I have nothing but respect towards Ruud and the others at LemmyWorld, and I understand how some instances want to block the Lemmit bot - so no hard feelings to whatsoever.
admin 1y ago • 100%
I figured it out - earlier this morning Lemmit was defederated from your instance, but that seems to have been fixed now.
admin 1y ago • 100%
Still not getting updates properly, but I have approved lemmy.basedcount.com, @Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com
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](!requests@lemmit.online). A bot ([open source](https://gitlab.com/sab_from_earth/lemmit)) 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](https://lemmit.online/c/about) 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 :)