So, this isn’t meant to be a “guide” or anything but I thought it could be helpful to some.
- Find yourself an RSS feed reader (e.g. Feedbin).
- Grab your subreddit link. (Example:
reddit.com/r/museum) - Add
.rssto the end of that link. (Example:reddit.com/r/museum.rss) - Add your subreddit RSS feeds to your feed reader.
This way, you can keep reading reddit without having to visit it. You will still need an account to participate, of course.
But I asked myself this question: “Do I really want to participate and keep feeding reddit content for free?”
You are what makes reddit what it is. If you can be yourself elsewhere, why waste your precious time on reddit?
You deserve better.
Theoretically yes, however… Say User A made a comment on Reddit but User A doesn’t exist (yet) on Lemmy, do you then create a new user for that new user or do you attribute that comment to an “unknown user” ? And if so, what’s the value than of that comment ? You cannot really interact with that comment other then ‘it exists’. But you decide to create a user for that, how do you verify that that person can “migrate” or have access to that ‘new user’ ? Assuming they even want to migrate to Lemmy in the first place.
Not to mention the fact, that it’s probably a GDPR violation to reupload that comment somewhere.
I wasn’t thinking about reuploading comments, just submissions. There are a lot of submissions that would be interesting to discuss here as separate conversations away from reddit. For example, Futurology, Science, Finance, and even Aww and Eyebleach have some nice things to discuss.
There are a ton of twitter bots that do exactly this already. I’ve seen a few mastodon bots do the same so I imagine it’s possible with lemmy as well.
At worst, you could just set it up on mastodon and then have them automatically post to lemmy.