I’d like to hear some feedback on this, or approach vectors.
Right now the bot is rather spammy. I was hoping that by using Reddits HOT feed, it would return have some level of quality control (I know, right?). Unfortunately, it seems that in most cases, it will just return anything that’s new. The downside of this is that a lot of garbage gets through, and the bot spends a lot of time scraping the underlying page to get the details.
I propose to only archive reddit posts that have a karma score of 5 or higher. In case of subs that hide the karma scores of posts for a certain time, they’d have to be at least 2 hours old, so that the Reddit moderators can weed out garbage on our behalf.
Do you folks have any thoughts on this?
Secondly, I want to put sticky comments on each community, with links to native Lemmy communities that cover the same subject. For this I would need some kind of API, or a master list of… oh, I see sub.rehab has just the thing I need. So expect that somewhere this week :).
This might be a controversial idea - and I’m not sure how feasible it is, but could the bot modify the upvote count of the post in this instance when the Reddit post is pulled in, to match the upvote count from Reddit at the time of import? I personally glance at the upvote count a lot when scrolling, and it’s a little jarring that all the posts are at 1.
It’s probably technically feasible, because I control both the bot and the server. But it would require some hacky stuff (I don’t known any Rust, the language Lemmy is built in). And beside, it would feel rather cheaty. It wouldn’t just mess with how it would appear on this server, but on other servers as well - they probably wouldn’t take kindly to that kind of manipulation. Nor should they.
So ehm… No.
Ah, I hasn’t considered how that might affect other instances’ “all” feeds. Yeah, that sounds like a quick way to get defederated everywhere. Oh well, womp womp