Little repost bot
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So I made a script that post once every 8 hours or where I start the script. The script will post to random c/ that has subscribers but low activity from a corresponding subreddit in hopes of jump starting it.
I do like the features where the image/video is simply put the url into the URL of a lemmy post so Reddit host the file and lemmy instances simply have to send text.
So far it has been a success. While I was building the script and making it post to my very niche 1 sub community the post ended up getting a few comments and over a dozen up votes. Which is great because I got surprised and I got to engage with other users and learn about something new.
Really the challenge is to find existing communities that don't have a active counterpart, have subscribers, have little to no activity, and something I have knowledge over. It would be strange to have something posted randomly and know nothing about that community or post or I have to spend 10 minutes figuring out what got posted
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So I made a script that post once every 8 hours or where I start the script. The script will post to random c/ that has subscribers but low activity from a corresponding subreddit in hopes of jump starting it.
I do like the features where the image/video is simply put the url into the URL of a lemmy post so Reddit host the file and lemmy instances simply have to send text.
So far it has been a success. While I was building the script and making it post to my very niche 1 sub community the post ended up getting a few comments and over a dozen up votes. Which is great because I got surprised and I got to engage with other users and learn about something new.
Really the challenge is to find existing communities that don't have a active counterpart, have subscribers, have little to no activity, and something I have knowledge over. It would be strange to have something posted randomly and know nothing about that community or post or I have to spend 10 minutes figuring out what got posted
Pretty much every time this gets brought up it gets shot down, because any interaction is one-way. We don't need to hasten the dead Internet.
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So I made a script that post once every 8 hours or where I start the script. The script will post to random c/ that has subscribers but low activity from a corresponding subreddit in hopes of jump starting it.
I do like the features where the image/video is simply put the url into the URL of a lemmy post so Reddit host the file and lemmy instances simply have to send text.
So far it has been a success. While I was building the script and making it post to my very niche 1 sub community the post ended up getting a few comments and over a dozen up votes. Which is great because I got surprised and I got to engage with other users and learn about something new.
Really the challenge is to find existing communities that don't have a active counterpart, have subscribers, have little to no activity, and something I have knowledge over. It would be strange to have something posted randomly and know nothing about that community or post or I have to spend 10 minutes figuring out what got posted
You should probably get consent from communities you want to include. I appreciate that you have good intentions and wouldn't be spamming communities, but this is the kind of thing that people can get pretty angry about.
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Pretty much every time this gets brought up it gets shot down, because any interaction is one-way. We don't need to hasten the dead Internet.
Except it's not dead Internet because I actually interact with the comments on my Post. Plus repost do actually have a life of their own weirdly enough.
What's old is new and what's new will become old
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You should probably get consent from communities you want to include. I appreciate that you have good intentions and wouldn't be spamming communities, but this is the kind of thing that people can get pretty angry about.
I don't consider a post every other day to a c/ to be spam.
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I don't consider a post every other day to a c/ to be spam.
Yeah, I agree. I said you wouldn't be spamming.
It sounds like you're grabbing posts about topics you're interested in, knowledgeable about, and that you want to talk about. It's almost like having a deck of cards with conversation topics on them and just drawing a random one every few days or something.
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So I made a script that post once every 8 hours or where I start the script. The script will post to random c/ that has subscribers but low activity from a corresponding subreddit in hopes of jump starting it.
I do like the features where the image/video is simply put the url into the URL of a lemmy post so Reddit host the file and lemmy instances simply have to send text.
So far it has been a success. While I was building the script and making it post to my very niche 1 sub community the post ended up getting a few comments and over a dozen up votes. Which is great because I got surprised and I got to engage with other users and learn about something new.
Really the challenge is to find existing communities that don't have a active counterpart, have subscribers, have little to no activity, and something I have knowledge over. It would be strange to have something posted randomly and know nothing about that community or post or I have to spend 10 minutes figuring out what got posted
If it's once a day, it should be fine. Feel free to join !fedigrow@lemmy.zip to discuss community growing
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If it's once a day, it should be fine. Feel free to join !fedigrow@lemmy.zip to discuss community growing
I'll make a post there. I do plan to make my script open source. Maybe that sub could help find c/ to add to revive
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I'll make a post there. I do plan to make my script open source. Maybe that sub could help find c/ to add to revive
It should !
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So I made a script that post once every 8 hours or where I start the script. The script will post to random c/ that has subscribers but low activity from a corresponding subreddit in hopes of jump starting it.
I do like the features where the image/video is simply put the url into the URL of a lemmy post so Reddit host the file and lemmy instances simply have to send text.
So far it has been a success. While I was building the script and making it post to my very niche 1 sub community the post ended up getting a few comments and over a dozen up votes. Which is great because I got surprised and I got to engage with other users and learn about something new.
Really the challenge is to find existing communities that don't have a active counterpart, have subscribers, have little to no activity, and something I have knowledge over. It would be strange to have something posted randomly and know nothing about that community or post or I have to spend 10 minutes figuring out what got posted
Generally speaking, I've found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.
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Generally speaking, I've found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.
my bot made a repost that got on the front page. But I hope that those c/ get other people to post
