While most of the people here upset and rightfully so, we have got to move past the angst to actually build this place out.
We have to recreate the environment and communities we’ve created on on Reddit here, so that people don’t feel like they’re missing out being on kbin.
That way, the next time Spez goes full Elon, we already have everything in place to make the jump.
I help run r/MMA on Reddit. We aggregate news as well as bringing on MMA figures for AMAs.
We, like many other magazines here, will need a way to quickly aggregate breaking news onto our magazine, and the easiest way to do that is going to be through a bot that mirrors submissions to our subreddit.
At least for the mags that rely on breaking news, if we implement this at scale, the end user wont be missing much by migrating over here if they get all the same great breaking news.
Do we have any bot builders in the house who could take this on as a project?
We would be leveraging Reddit’s own userbase at scale to better kbin, and eventually beat them in the long run. That’s the biggest L we could ever deal them.
EDIT: WASN’T SURE THIS WAS GONNA BLOW UP. IVE MADE https://kbin.social/m/BotIt FOR DEVELOPMENT. IF YOU’RE INTERESTED AND CAN HELP OR JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROJECT, COME ON OVER. THANKS.
Devs (like me) can help, the main issue is hosting the bot somewhere and covering the costs, but I think is a good idea.
Maybe create a magazine for it to get some additional support? I could edit the top post.
I will take a look at the technical side, I want to know how easy it is to make something like this. I won’t make promises but if manage to get something working I’ll let you know.
I don’t think basic scraping will be particularly difficult, especially if the rates are kept low. While I also don’t think it’s actually the right way forward, I’ll happily help out.
Even if it was just the top upvoted link post per sub each day, that would give a lot of content here to get started and make communities (or magazines kbin parlance) look alive. Once people start posting on their own it won’t be needed anymore.
The API prices are high, but maybe it can be done with just one or two calls, which would make it almost nothing. Of course, the API might just disappear one day.
Fuck the API, scrape the HTML from old.reddit.com for free
I made https://kbin.social/m/BotIt for us to congregate
You can get VPS’s for like $30 a year these days.
I keep hearing this but all the VPS solutions I find cost an arm + leg. What VPS solutions cost $30/year?
Vultr has VPSs starting at $2.50/mo ($30/yr)
I also commonly find links to really cheap servers on nerdvittles.com
Example:
https://my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=735
$13/mo
What are the decentralized p2p storage options for hosting bots, would decentralized hosting and storage options be a viable solution?
Agreed about the mirror of posts. Even if the engagement isn’t as high yet, if people at least feel they can get the rough news feed they are used to, they’ll more likely jump over
The fiercest way to get back at Reddit and u/spez is to make the Fediverse succeed.
The best thing we can do is be active here. Make the effort to get involved, post , report idiots and be civil. This goes beyond reddit, it is about getting out from under the thumb of corporate control. We can’t have free expression if the narritive is being controlled.
Also we have networks here we can draw upon, devs , artists , folks who make videos, people who write, etc we can. Ask them for help to create videos and promotional material to quickly explain the fediverse in a simple and concise way.
100% agree
our social media sites need to be open source and decentralized. any other way will lead to the slow inevitable march of enshittification
I’ve built scrapping bots like this before. Would definitely be an interesting project.
https://kbin.social/m/BotIt lets do it!
