Any other options for deals on Lemmy? I’m done with Reddit

  • PoutinetownM
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    1 year ago

    I’ve created a bot that reposts bapcsalescanada from the subreddit’s RSS feed. It is posted at an interval of 5mins. I am currently testing it on a test community to see if it works as intended; once it works well i will open source the code, then I can move it to post on this community if @RandomDude agrees.

    I was previously tempted to make one, but was discouraged by this comment.

    • cmeow
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      1 year ago

      Thank you, I think it’s a valuable tool for this sub while it’s still in its infancy compared to the contributor and subscriber count of r/bapcsalescanada.

    • as_is_tradition
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      1 year ago

      RandomDude’s last comment was from a month ago, so you might not get a response if you wait for their approval. You could give it a week or so to see if there’s a response and activate the bot if you don’t get one. The community is dead anyway if nothing changes, so there’s nothing to lose by trying.

      • PoutinetownM
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        1 year ago

        Thanks, this makes sense! I will wait a week, I’ve also sent a DM to RandomDude.

      • PoutinetownM
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        1 year ago

        I sent a DM to him but he hasn’t gotten back to me. Others have suggested me to directly use it here if he doesn’t oppose within a week.

    • unscholarly_source@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Using a bot for a period of time to generate activity and then disabling once engagement is sustained, vs sticking to humans but have zero engagement… I think it’s pretty clear where the value is. Thanks for creating that bot :)

      @RandomDude please!

      Edit: another thought, given that this is the fediverse, nothing really prevents the creation of a community (in this instance or another) that has the bot, and experiment to see which approach is most effective.

      Edit 2: I just realized, if it’s based on RSS, it won’t auto update if the past is deleted or marked as expired right?

      • PoutinetownM
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately it won’t detect deleted or expired posts. Perhaps there’s clever tricks to check periodically if a post is still alive on Reddit via a get request, but that’d be expensive to implement and hard to test on the reddit side; however it’s worth trying when we get there :)

        • unscholarly_source@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Yeah… that Reddit get request would probably get shutdown by Reddit so quickly.

          But hey, maybe it’s something to live with if it means this community’s activity improves…

    • Caboose20
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      1 year ago

      I wish there was a way to see the posts on Reddit, and have them show along side posts in Lemmy but I also would prefer it to be interacting with real people on here. I think that’s what I like more about the fediverse, the people here actually care.

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    1 year ago

    People like to shit on bots. But for a sub like this I think it makes a lot of sense to import posts from Reddit over to here.

    • imaradio
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      1 year ago

      there is a stickied post from the mod asking if anyone knows how to do this. i would be very happy about it if it was done.

  • James
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    1 year ago

    Something can’t be dead if it never lived.

    Just like a ton of other niche communities, it’s going to take a long time to grow to something like it was on Reddit.

  • GameGod
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    1 year ago

    In addition to the ongoing bot suggestion, a simple way to contribute is to post the deals you find here instead of the other site. I still check the other site every once and a while, but any good deals I find myself (that aren’t on the other site yet) will be posted here and only here.