I mentioned in a previous post that one of the things that I’m doing to bootstrap the content on this community was to get submissions from reddit and place them here.
I couldn’t resist and decided to play with Reddit’s and Lemmy’s API to see if I could automate some of this job (not on Elisp, I will shamefully admit) and after some time I got a Python script that I checks the date of the last submission and grabs the url of all new (non-self) submissions and posts them here.
I was wondering what the community thinks of the idea of me running this script every hour or so? This would basically mean that every post from reddit would be synchonized here.
There are some other things that I’d like to do as well:
- avoid posting links from people who are already here (to let them make the Lemmy post themselves)
- Lots of posts on /r/emacs are “self” posts from people describing or summarizing their project/blog posts, and with a link inside it. I’d like to add a (interactive) step to look at “self” submissions and see if there is a link that can be submitted.
- While checking for “self” submissions, possibly send a DM to the poster inviting them to join this community
What do you think? Should I go forward with these ideas?
IMHO, there is little point posting links if we cannot get the actual discussion going in the comments. Without discussion, you will simply turn communick.news into another https://planet.emacslife.com/.
For self posts, it is particularly important. The whole point of having the package/blog post author around is to ask her questions and get actual comment replies.