Lemmy Deep Lighthouse
I built a Firefox extension to help people bring their own Reddit posts over to Lemmy.
It lets you map subreddits you post in to Lemmy communities, review queued posts before publishing, and post through your own Lemmy account. Settings and credentials stay in your browser; there is no hosted service.
This is intended for republishing your own work, not scraping or reposting other people’s content. The goal is to make moving from Reddit to Lemmy less tedious while keeping authors in control.
Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-deep-lighthouse/
Source and releases: https://codeberg.org/sanitation/lemmy-deep-lighthouse
Honestly one of the worst things about Lemmy is the reddit-reposting bots. It floods the fediverse with posts that disincentivize participation (most people don’t want to post a reply to a bot)
I honestly dont see much flooding. most subreddits either dont exist at all or have no content. this is primary reason people go back to reddit
Most repost bots don’t last long because bot posts kind of aren’t content. Forum sites like reddit and Lemmy are great for the comment section and bots don’t interact. I see the appeal of user who wants to post THEIR stuff to both sites but even then, it kinda feels like reddit gets the content and Lemmy gets the scraps.
I don’t mean this as a put down. This thing is better than anything I’ve ever made. I’m just concerned after seeing it happen countless times here. I’m kind of against automated posting in general because it takes the humanity from the internet
No thanks
Intent is to help make lemmy more popular.
I don’t think we want reddit posts here.
many people do. also most posts are reposts from reddit anyways. but I do understand if not all people will find this helpful.
Seems like you got banned from a few communities: https://lazysoci.al/modlog?userId=26294798
“blaze” is also banned in many communities.
I guess my point here is “what’s your point?”
So you had no argument and just let others do the work for you? K
Oh good, the behavior police have shown up.
Gfy
Communities have different rules. It is what it is .
That’s what awesome about lemmy - we can choose a community more open to contributions or create a new community.
flashbacks from three years ago when I started !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io and manually reposted all 400 of /r/FloatingIsFun’s posts there as fast as I could
Most communities do not need reposts from Reddit. I did because the collection as a whole is important to me, and because my subreddit contained things that would become lost media if the subreddit gets banned.
If you decide to mass repost a bunch of Reddit stuff, get it all done quickly after creating your community here. This keeps your spam off people’s Subscribed feeds, but even that won’t save the All feed users. I had people wanting to block my community due to a Fedia time zone mix-up putting all of my posts on Lemmy’s front page.
Please repost responsibly.
This is what I advocate for with Twitter. I understand creators can’t just up and move to mastodon, but they absolutely can just double post to allow others to move first.
I understand creators can’t just up and move to mastodon
But they can though.
They choose not to.
Don’t bother bringing up viewership drops, or how little of an audience they’ll have.
They HAVE THE OPTION.
They just want to help a nazi platform continue limping along if it means more money FAR more than they want a better world.
Sure, but there’s an option to do it smoothly. Just double post.
Twitter doesn’t have exclusive rights to your content. If you make it available in more places, people will start to have the option to use other places without losing much or any of their content.
The users won’t go because the content won’t go. The content won’t go because the users won’t go. There’s an easy fix for this, and it only takes a very slight amount of effort. Things like this extension help.
Don’t bother bringing up viewership drops, or how little of an audience they’ll have.
Still brings it up
Damn, too bad all those nazi enablers are still using the nazi platform, otherwise the nazi platform supporting content creator would definitely switch!
This has been attempted multiple times over the last few years and has had many forms. It never quite works as the posts still end up being very bot-like as it’s never managed correctly.
The worst iteration was someone who went so far as to create mirror accounts for the commenters and also copied over the comments as well. That was absolutely horrible and actually pissed a lot of people off when they realized they were replying to “ghost” accounts.
I honestly already want to block all posts that this plugin might create. They always just turn out being noisy and irrelevant. Posts aren’t “published work” and kinda need to happen organically. Also, one of the reasons many of us like Lemmy is because of the lower traffic and (generally) better quality posts.
That is fair, and I agree the ghost-account/comment mirroring approach is bad.
This is intentionally narrower: it only posts through the user’s own Lemmy account, only for content they choose/configure, with review before publishing by default. It does not mirror commenters, create fake accounts, or copy discussions.
The goal is not to flood Lemmy, but to make it easier for people who already write useful posts on Reddit to start publishing them on Lemmy instead while also ensuring people that only comment at least can comment on some lemmy posts. sometimes lemmy communities are just dead - no content, no nothing. at least lets have content.
Would this allow one reddit post to go to multiple communities on multiple instances?
If you setup multiple subreddit mappings it should work yes
Absolutely 0 use for this myself, but maybe it’ll help some primarily reddit users make the switch if they can transfer content easier.
Personally I don’t like seeing recycled reddit stuff, but there ARE some niche communities I don’t have the energy or dedication to keep alive on lemmy… So stuff like that would be nice to see again, and stuff like this make it more likely to happen.
The bot problem is so pervasive on reddit you are inadvertently giving bots and non-human controlled accounts more of a platform if you use this tool.
I prefer organically sourced content. Yes, even if it’s people possibly saving stuff off reddit and reposting it here. I don’t need reddit in a shitty mass repack.
Btw, contrary to what you think you’re doing, you’re not “a hero” for doing this. You’re not going to be some Lemmy power user admired by all.
I prefer organically sourced content. Yes, even if it’s people possibly saving stuff off reddit and reposting it here. I don’t need reddit in a shitty mass repack.
Im fully prepared to get negative feedback. That is ok - Im confident this is a good idea and a great solution.
this is completely ok if we dont see eye to eye - you are entitled to your opinion.
