it runs a lemmy instance which will be the home of bots that mirror accounts on reddit.
The admin of this instance can choose what subreddits are going to be monitored from this instance. Let's say that these are the "source" communities.
For these selected subreddits, the admin can define where the posts from these subreddits should be posted in the other lemmy instances. We can, e.g, map posts from /r/selfhosted to !main@selfhosted.forum or !selfhosted@lemmy.world .
You can choose whether to mirror the posts only or the whole thread with comments from reddit. Each of these will be authored by the account that mirrors the original reddit user.
(WIP, optional) responses to the reddit mirror accounts will create a comment on reddit with a link to original lemmy thread.

So, now I finally got to deploy the first lemmy fediversed instance, and I'd like to know the following:

which subreddits you still follow but would like to bring to the fediverse?
For instance admins and community mods, what communities you would like to be the destination of the mirror posts, and would you be interested in having the posts only or the whole thread?

Bear in mind that this is NOT advised to be done for the bigger subs. The idea here is not to create a huge army of bots and overwhelm the fediverse, but mostly to create a migration path to those who rely on the more niche subreddits.

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have it follow whatever instance you want it to follow. There’s a request community that you post to and it’s then added to the queue.

I don’t understand the point of this at all. Might be a fun project for you to do, but nobody wants a bunch of communication set before them that you can’t interact with. It doesn’t help this grow at all.

[–] rglullis 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a request community that you post to and it’s then added to the queue.

But only the posts, while I want to have all of the conversation, comments included.

Might be a fun project for you to do, but nobody wants a bunch of communication set before them that you can’t interact with.

What if I told you that I started working on this precisely because some of the people who were active on /r/emacs wanted to leave reddit but would also like to support those coming with questions? With this tool we can see the content on Lemmy, respond on Lemmy and (WIP) end up notifying the original asker on reddit.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll definitely check it out if you follow through with it. I just can’t envision wanting a link to Reddit at all anymore.

[–] rglullis -1 points 1 year ago

And in case you want to help, everything is open source and on Github.

And if you really want to help, consider becoming a sponsor.