Howdy everyone. As this community begins to get more members, I’m looking for anyone with experience with RSS capable of auto-posting from other sites (RFD, r/bapcsalescanada, etc.) so that deals can be posted frequently on here (and while they are still on). From my understanding, I can for example, use: “https://www.reddit.com/r/bapcsalescanada/.rss” to get the rss feed for r/bapcsalescanada, but I am not sure on how to get it to post in this community.
Additionally, if there is something equivalent to the specs bot that is capable of posting the specs of ssds, or BapcsBotCanada that posts similar deals that have been posted recently.
If you’ve stopped attempts at this because of previous comments, I think it’s worth revisiting. The community doesn’t have the population or participation level needed yet for it to function. It’s too much to ask for one person (RandomDude) to keep alive by themselves.
As things stand you need to return to Reddit anyway for the info, so populating it with posts or links from there would at least keep people on Lemmy.
If people don’t like it, they can always block the account of the bot making the posts and they’d be left with only human generated content.
When the community is large and engaged enough to function without the bot, it can be disabled.
I second this. As it currently stands, this community is already dead (last post before the two today was a month ago). And I like the mirroring of posts from r/bapcsalescanada since the source of posts is human in origin.
A quick GitHub search yielded this repo, which could probably be forked to mirror r/bapcsalescanada rss posts to this community. Unfortunately I don’t have the means to host this bot full time.