Any other options for deals on Lemmy? I’m done with Reddit

  • unscholarly_source@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Using a bot for a period of time to generate activity and then disabling once engagement is sustained, vs sticking to humans but have zero engagement… I think it’s pretty clear where the value is. Thanks for creating that bot :)

    @RandomDude please!

    Edit: another thought, given that this is the fediverse, nothing really prevents the creation of a community (in this instance or another) that has the bot, and experiment to see which approach is most effective.

    Edit 2: I just realized, if it’s based on RSS, it won’t auto update if the past is deleted or marked as expired right?

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately it won’t detect deleted or expired posts. Perhaps there’s clever tricks to check periodically if a post is still alive on Reddit via a get request, but that’d be expensive to implement and hard to test on the reddit side; however it’s worth trying when we get there :)

      • unscholarly_source@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah… that Reddit get request would probably get shutdown by Reddit so quickly.

        But hey, maybe it’s something to live with if it means this community’s activity improves…