Step 1: go to !requests@lemmit.online and check if the subreddit you want has already been requested. If so, it contains a link you can use to subscribe to it. If not, read the sidebar and make a post in the request community.

Do note that Lemmit will only copy over the starting posts, not the comments. So there is no point in requesting subs like /r/askmen etc.

Let me know if you have any further questions, and please be specific.

That could work, but it would be terrible for discoverability. In the mean time, I put up a feature request at Lemmy. I’m not a fan of pushing my problems upstream, but in this case it would actually be the easiest solution - as far as I can see (and I have 0 experience with Rust) they only need to adjust the validation regex, because the database already allows for it. That is - as long as the ActivityPub protocol allows for it.

If they deny it, I could try something with name mapping, but you’d either end up with something that is unreadable, or something with a high collision chance. Neither option is very appealing. For now I’m just going to wait and see.

I have considered some technical solutions, and I agree that this sub would be an excellent candidate for archiving. For now I have made a feature request at Lemmy because, let’s face it, that would solve several problems.

If they aren’t up for it, I could try and fix it some other way, but ideally it would be fixed if they would just allow for 1 more character than they do now.

Unfortunately, Lemmy cannot handle community names over 20 characters, so this won’t be possible.

Done ;)

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Done :)

You know what, there actually is a setting in Lemmit that allows for scraping of new. I’ll make an exception for dota2 for you, gimme a moment to fix that. Having said that - since there’s only 7 subscribers to that community right now, it will only get updated once per hour (once per half hour once it hits 10), but you will get all the posts.

Heya,

You’re right that it doesn’t pick up everything, the bot is not using the new sorting, but the default, hot. I did this intentionally, in order to have a bit of quality filter. Let’s face it, with the amount of people visiting here right now, there’s not going to be much up/down voting to do quality control.

Those posts you mentioned did make it on here eventually (once they got enough votes on reddit), but I’m afraid that if your goal is to have a 1-on-1 copy of reddit, that won’t help you much :/

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of course this exists.

(I’m not complaining)

I’m afraid I don’t know enough about mastodon to make such a thing possible, but I expect it should be simpler than what I’m doing for reddit, considering both lemmy and mastodon use ActivityPub. If anything, I expected it to work already.

I like it! Maybe also put a sticky per community where people can post their alternatives?

The bot will only be able to find communities based on its name, but hoomans are actually smart enough to know that askLemmy is a better alternative to askReddit. Not to mention that such a post can be updated over time with more suggestions.

👍 Fair enough. I just want to prevent people requesting things, deciding it’s not what they wanted, and then have the bot keep it up to date for nothing.

Normally it does, see https://lemmit.online/comment/490 Not sure why it didn’t here though :(

Correct. A few days ago I had a lot of requests by 1 user (not you) for a over 20 subreddits, they then didn’t even bother to join the resulting communities themselves. Since those do take away time from resources that are getting views, I had decided to disable scraping for a bunch of subs that only had 1 subscriber (the bot itself), including perchance.

If you do intent to follow it, I can re-enable it in the scraper later today.

askreddit is already being archived.

Question is: why would you want to? You’ll only get the questions, not the actual answers (see the FAQ in !about@lemmit.online).

Bad bot. Deploying a fix right now for this, apologies for the spam.

The bad news is that I now know why it cannot clone this subreddit - the name is too long. That’s going to take some time to fix, I’m afraid.

At any rate, “bestof” subreddits don’t work very well at the moment anyway, since they do not yet retrieve the underlying message.

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yes. yes it was.

Unknown. I’d first need to setup a local test instance to assure it works. Up until now I’ve been testing my bot against production (YOLO!)

As a side effect, I did manage to find and fix another bug that would lead to a crash in the bot :D