Check out [email protected]. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.

Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you've seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.

You can make requests for subs to fetch at [email protected].

In the end we're just using lemmy and lemmit's bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Ok, I really don't get this.

Why are y'all so focused on basically moving Reddit onto the Fediverse when you can just, y'know, either make new content that you want to see on the Fediverse... or just go back to using Reddit? Dunno about you guys, but I got away from Reddit because I don't want the Fediverse to become Reddit 2.0 in terms of content and community - I was kind of hoping more for Fediverse communities and content, not Reddit communities and content on the Fediverse. If I wanted that, I'd go on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Personally it’s just because I reeeeeeeally don’t want to use Reddit’s mobile app, and I still would like to see notifications for content that isn’t usually conducive to open discussion, like r/gamedeals for example.

On another note, how do I subscribe to any of these from kbin? I tried !(subredditname)@lemmit.online but it doesn’t seem to recognize the address when I search for it :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I see you're on kbin as well. For lemmy communities that nobody has joined yet, you would typically search for them on kbin by typing in @{community}@{lemmy instance} in the regular search bar and the community would be one of the results. However, for some reason it doesn't seem to work with lemmit. It just returns a blank search result which is unusual because if search did not find anything, it the content would just say "Empty." I wonder what's going on.

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