this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2023
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Same, plus curiosity and enthusiasm for FOSS. Can't wait until fediverse is developed enough to host also niche communities like 'cassette_futurism' or 'liminal_space'.
Be the change you want to see :)
Even just creating those communities, then populating them with a few of the top posts from reddit, would be a good start.
Might as well ask here since it's relevant, but I've been thinking of spinning up a beefy lemmy instance and "mirroring" some of my favourite reddit subs across into custom mirror communities. A kind of archive but which you can browse from any lemmy UI. For example, there are some news and sports threads I enjoy following. Would this be a good or bad idea? Would it needlessly flood the other instances?
I had a similar idea but wouldn't you need to use Reddit's API to grab the posts, or is there another way?
Yes, but apparently private apps & usage is still free (for now). You just can't create an app id for use by thousands of users. From https://www.redditinc.com/blog/2023apiupdates :