- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
Hey everyone, I thought I’d post a test of a Firefox browser extension I’ve been working on that streamlines crossposting Reddit posts over to Lemmy communities.
The extension works by injecting a new ‘Share to Lemmy’ button under each Reddit post in your web browser. Clicking on the new button opens a pop-up menu that auto-completes the relevant fields for your Lemmy post (post title, text body, external URL, thumbnail image). The menu provides a field for you to search Lemmy communities, and relevant results are provided as you type.
The extension options menu provides a means of logging in and out of your Lemmy account in order to make posts. Click on the extension in the browser toolbar to access options and sign in to Lemmy.
Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmylinks/
Some known issues I plan on working out soon:
- No support for mobile browsers yet.
- Instance selection isn’t correctly filtering community search results. As a result it’s a tad difficult to determine if the ‘politics’ community you’re posting to is for lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc.
- Sometimes image URLs for images hosted on Reddit aren’t correctly identified for upload to Lemmy, and they have to be manually input.
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I honestly think this is a good idea. From what I understand it’s just making it easy to share the same link from reddit without having to copypaste a bunch of stuff, right? It’s like reading an RSS feed or stumbling upon a cool thing you want to share and having an easy way to do so.
Don’t worry about the naysayers. There are always a bunch of purists around that believe the world can be divided into black and white.
Lemmy-users won’t be able to tell the difference between somebody who found a link and shared it by copy pasting or someone using the extension🤷 Good content is everywhere and where you found it shouldn’t matter.
Put the source up on codeberg, publish the extension, and let people decide for themselves if they want to use it or not.
Good luck
Absolutely agree. I didn’t like the crosspost bots but this button? Sounds great.
I agree with this take. The crawler bots that mindlessly replicate Reddit content (but without the interactivity of the comment section) are terrible. This just makes it easier to share stuff on Lemmy for the people who still haven’t fully left Reddit. It’s still a human who has actively registered on Lemmy seeing content they want to share with others on here, only now having a tool to do so easier.
What exactly is the harm?
Nice idea, thanks!
Please don’t bring baggage from your ex into your new relationship.
The reality is that Reddit still gets a lot of great and current content posted to it in a larger quantity than Lemmy does, and thats true whether you want news or memes.
Easy content migration incentivizes users that are on both platforms to port quality content over to the Fediverse, and if there’s quality content then Lemmy will be more attractive to new users. My Lemmy newsfeed can be quite stale compared to my Reddit feed, which is what inspired me to make this.
I’m interested in expanding this to a larger crossposting engine for mastodon and pixelfed. I think tools like this can be really helpful for adoption.
We go through this every. single. time there’s a batch of new Lemmy signups:
FNG: It’s so empty here (compared to Reddit)! I know! I’ll make a bot/tool that re-posts/syncs Reddit posts. People will love it!
Everyone: Ugh. Again with this??
There’s literally already DEDICATED INSTANCES that do nothing but re-post from Reddit. Just follow one of those instead of adding more secondhand garbage.
But this is different, this allows to selectively share one post that people select, it’s not a bot reposting everything.
Because let’s be honest, most of the content here comes from Reddit.
Pretty good idea. I’m against bots all the way but cross posts by real users makes sense to me. Thanks for your effort 🙏
Streamlining cross posting is a good idea, as long as someone actually read the post and posts it with a purpose. On second thought, I think cross posting is simple enough, given that titles are usually auto completed.
I’m generally against automatic cross posting bots, as they usually post duplicates, bad articles (instead of a proper source). Additionally, they often flood communities with an amount of content they are too small to handle. I.e. a lack of users to vote on posts let’s good articles drown in a flood of mediocre posts. This can kill communities as they feel even more empty than with fewer posts but more comments.
Yeah we don’t need more posts, we need more comments, and maybe more voters too
Don’t let the haters get you down. I think this is neat and it’s great that you’re trying to get more content on here.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Crosspost bots have been discussed many times and they are generally not wanted. Let reddit do its own thing. The extension sounds preferable to a bot if it’s only for use by post authors.
I share the sentiment of crossposting by actual users being preferable to using bots, hence the extension. The hope is that users will be encouraged to migrate quality content to Lemmy.
Just subscribe to your communities on lemmit.online. But stop feeding Reddit.
While I personally ain’t a fan of the idea, it’s still cool to see developments in this area.
Hopefully we can block it.
Is there something like this but just with any website? Like just make it a one (pr two post) deal?
That’s sorta my larger idea for where to take this: one crossposting engine that’ll use a template to copy posts to fediverse websites. Once I know Reddit works well I wanted to try Hacker News next
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It’s not for me, but it sounds cool for those active on both sites.
