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Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here? (self.electronics)

submitted 1 year ago by rglullis to c/electronics@discuss.tchncs.de

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Arguments to support the idea:

According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I'm seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news

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[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If there's more activity on Reddit then here, then Reddit repost bots make it feel like all the community action is happening on Reddit. They push people back to Reddit because that's where all the new posts are coming from, so why engage here if the active discussion is already in progress over there?

[–] rglullis 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I am giving you real data: the communities where the mirrors are active end up with more organic activity than those without.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting. I've mostly seen communities overwhelmed with bot posts and 0 replies, but I haven't taken any statistics.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit they're giving you real data.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they made an assertion, without statistics or raw data to back it up. How many replies do cross-posts get, compared to regular posts? What's the mean? What's the median? Does the distribution look Gaussian, and if so what's the standard deviation.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I was being sarcastic. I always forget the /s.

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