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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works -2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't consider a post every other day to a c/ to be spam.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Generally speaking, I've found that the techie forums are pretty healthy but the normie ones tend to be lacking in content.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

my bot made a repost that got on the front page. But I hope that those c/ get other people to post

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it's once a day, it should be fine. Feel free to join !fedigrow@lemmy.zip to discuss community growing

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago

It should !