Something to think about. It is pointless to interact with any of those posts directly here, so as a result they get no engagement. They’re just links to Reddit, and I feel like they’re just funnelling engagement back there. I can’t help but notice, possibly incorrectly, that activity here sharply dropped as soon as that bot went active.
If we want the content here, wouldn’t it make more sense to pull non self post content directly and post it as a first class Lemmy post here without linking to the reddit post?
If our goal is to make this the new Monero home, wouldn’t a better approach be adding this site to the sidebar on the subreddit, or having automod inform every poster about it’s existence? Is moving here even our goal anymore?
Personally, I think the problem is that comments aren’t moved over as well. The fact that posts are mirrored allows me to look only on this forum for topics of interest rather than look on Reddit (which has more people) then monero.town. I wouldn’t need to look at Reddit at all if the comments are carried over. It wouldn’t have to have instant response, but if comments are mirrored 3-4 times a day on all posts newer than 3 days, that would capture most comments and give people a reason to never look back to Reddit. And the volume of updates is low enough that it should not affect performance. The key reason xmrtrader’s mirror failed is that it is a daily discussion so showing the posts have little value…the posted comments are what really counts.
Well, either way you can’t engage in discussion, and that’s the main problem with it. Mirroring comments won’t change the fact that when someone says “desktop GUI showing 0 balance” you cannot reply to that person here, engagement will not happen with these posts on Lemmy.
If you’re like me, and youre dead set on ditching Reddit, comments or no, it’s just noise that I can’t interact with. And that’s fine, I can block and move on, my concern that prompted me to post this post was that the reddit bot might be hurting the town, they seem like a constant reminder that we need to be over at reddit if we intend to actually discuss things.
Why couldn’t you engage in the discussion if the comments were mirrored? Yes, it won’t be on reddit but that doesn’t matter if you wanted to ditch reddit and get lemmy comments. Plus, if the above idea about adding automatically posting on reddit (this discussion is continued on monero.town) it would bring more traffic here (unfortunately those posts will likely be deleted). Let me put it to you this way. Option (1) No mirroring posts leaves people forced to watch both reddit and monero.town to get the full picture. The two communities will never merge. Option (2) Mirroring posts and adding the reddit link allows people to look only at monero.town (not reddit) and only clicking on the link if they expect the comments to look interesting. This encourages a “lemmy first” attitude. Option (3) Mirroring posts and comments allows xmrtrader to be mirrored and allows people to stay on lemmy (the link to reddit can be removed). This allows people to ditch reddit and not lose anything.
So now mirroring comments to reddit is a different story and is most certainly not going to happen. Reddit API changes, all Lemmy comments would be posted from the same account, that’s just a lot.
Mirroring comments from reddit means the bot has to check every such and such time, without a reddit API mind you, scraping the HTML, post them, then delete spam ones, then it can’t sync upvotes…
A lot more than you’d expect is involved with something like that, easily an order of magnitude more complexity than just posting posts.