Arguments to support the idea:
- According to browse.feddit.de, this is the largest community for showcasing electronics projects, the last post is almost one month old.
- People that signup to alien.top via the fediverserver portal will have this community as the recommended alternative to /r/electronics, but they will pretty much never see it if the community does not have any fresh content and will be more likely to lose interest.
- Despite the usual criticism of mirroring bots, the way that the fediverser tool works is showing to actually help interaction. In the past two weeks, I’m seeing an above average increase of subscriber and (more importantly) user count on communities like !main@selfhosted.forum, !homelab@selfhosted.forum and !emacs@communick.news
In support of jet> as a person not currently a member, encountering it on my /all lemmy feed, I’ll repeat what I’ve said about other communities I find interesting in the past that suddenly become spammy:
Just block it. The moment I start seeing 10+ posts from a bot from the same community, I just block the community. Blocking the bot is of course an option, but I tend to be of the opinion that communities that allow that kind of spam into the fediverse don’t belong in my feed.
The Reddit activity vs Lemmy activity is a real problem though. OP’s two-way mirror option is definitely a way to overcome that, but sounds like it would be real spammy. I’m not sure what a good solution for Lemmy’s activity problem is though; it may just be accepting smaller less active, but more tight knit communities than Reddit had, or fewer communities existing unless they reach a certain critical mass.
if its a real two way bridge, then its at least real human conversations, even if they are not lemmies. If they can read and respond to your comments, I think its a win.
it wouldn’t make sense for World News, we have enough fighting there by ourselves. But VLSI design… sure, why not?