Discoverability in this context meaning the ability to more effectively find public communities/people of interest. Alongside improving this however, respecting people's decisions on whether and how they may be found, if at all.

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[–] rglullis 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm of course biased, but I think that my approach on fediverser could pretty much solve issues of content discovery if more instances were willing to adopt it.

If we take as a given that most people coming to Fediverse already had an account on Reddit (and/or Twitter, Instagram, etc), then we can leverage the information they have on those platforms and use it during the registration to onboarding the user on Lemmy (and/or Mastodon/Pleroma, PixelFed, respectively)

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you the one who set up the alien.top instance a while back? I think your approach is interesting, but has some fundemental growth and scaling flaws in its current form.

Would you consider restricting content mirroring to users who are active on Lemmy? That might cut down on the "dead" posts and comments, which I think was the main reason that most instances blocked your instance.

Additionally, some method of messaging users mirrored users on Reddit when their content gets a reply on Lemmy would be a good feature to help coax users back to Lemmy.

Thoughts?

[–] rglullis 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I disabled the alien.top mirror bots because most of the complaints were related to "I can not reach the real user by interacting with the bot".

So the next step is to build a proper bridge, which would solve this problem. I haven't worked much on that to be honest because I am waiting on the response from NLNet to see if I can get a grant, and because I am more and more pressed to do things that can generate meaningful income.

In any case, I need to reiterate that the content mirror and the bridge is separate from the "Login via Reddit" feature. If an instance admin wants no reddit mirror bots, they just don't need to enable it.