Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
It doesn’t have to be me making the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
Morena, I was waiting for this to come up!
Well, it’s still shitty weather outside. Guess I’ll be perving at Bayonetta’s backside for s significant part of the day, I’ve almost finished my first playthrough.
Discovered lemmyverse which is SUPER HELPFUL for finding communities.
Does anyone know if it’s bad karma to rip a bunch of posts off reddit to populate some of the empty communities here so it doesn’t feel so dead to new users?
Time for another tea. I’ve discovered that strong-as-all-fuck loose leaf tea is 10x better than coffee. Like MDMA is better than crack (idk I’ve never tried crack).
I think so long as you credit / link back to OP you should be fine. So far the new users are quite open about referring back to reddit for stuff, unlike ex-twitter users on Mastodon.
I don’t think it’s bad karma. I’ve spent years on Reddit watching other people’s TikToks, reading other people’s tweets, watching a repost of a repost of a repost of a video ripped from someone’s Facebook… If you give them credit, that’s more than most people get in the world of social media.
Reddit has a way to embed posts and it would be cool if links to Reddit embedded the content here, but I don’t think that’s happened yet. If that happens, all you’d need to do is link to someone’s post.
I was considering making a bot that automatically cross-posted stuff from Reddit, but it seemed pretty unpopular with the community. The more I think about it, they were right - a bot doing that was a bad idea for this community. I was thinking of setting up another instance with a bunch of communities that had the top posts from their respective subreddits, but I just haven’t got the time to figure all that out at the moment.
But I’m going way off track. I think reposting stuff from Reddit is fine.
Edit: @[email protected] - I meant to reply to your comment
Cheers, yeah I think it’s actually a really good idea to seed new communities with the top 20 posts from the previous subreddit. Gives a base to start from. Seems like there was mixed support on your linked thread.
Will have to look at making a bot myself…
If you need any help doing it, there are a bunch of very knowledgeable and helpful people in the Lemmy.nz Matrix chat - #lemmynz:matrix.org. If you haven’t signed up to Matrix yet, there’s an NZ instance of it at mtrx.nz.
Found this! https://lemmit.online/
Perhaps the simple answer is to post in the request community asking for /r/newzealand to be added.
Oh, nice. Just requested it and their bot made the community almost instantly. Might put up a post about it here.
Nice. Do we need guidelines about using it? Like sure you can subscribe, but what about cross posting to !newzealand?
Cross posts ok? Guidelines on not cross posting questions just links (articles etc) because the questions don’t come with the answers? Any thoughts?
I’ve put up a post about it because I think all the Reddit refugees will be keen, at least in the short term. I think we should have this discussion there so everyone can have their input. It will get lost here.
FYI I don’t think we’re likely to get post embeds - at least on the official lemmy UI. Twitter+Facebook do it in a way that means they get to dump their tracking pixels all over the page, which is a privacy nightmare. Youtube at least uses an iFrame which doesn’t seem to have this issue.
I didn’t even think of the privacy aspect. Of course they put their tracking pixels there, ffs. I bet Reddit does too.
Anyone can post it! Even you!
I’m not sure if there’s an agreed way to do this yet, but one cool think about Lemmy is you can do a link and text in the same post. You could put a link to the reddit post in the body of the post so people can find the original if they want.
I’ve never had stong as fuck loose leaf tea, does it still taste like tea? I really don’t like the taste of tea.
It tastes like extra strong tea lol I’m sort of desensitized to strong flavour so that’s how I can drink it. Once you’ve got over the taste of Kava, almost nothing can shock you.
Haha I don’t know what I was expecting.