since the need for DM’s would be relatively niche
Do you think so? I'd personally would prefer to not have any comments in the public threads. So, I'd like my comments to be sent as DMs to the OP just to let them know about the conversation on Lemmy and to encourage them to signup here. Don't forget that the main goal is to make it easy for people to migrate away from Reddit. If we just implement a two-way bridge, we'd be effectively giving no incentive for Redditors to move out.
I will be honest with you, I haven't put much work on Fediverser since December for two reasons:
I haven't come up with a design that is simple enough for the Lemmy users to indicate how they want their message replicated to Reddit (i.e, should the response be sent as a comment, as a DM, none at all?)
Time taken by job search and building more stuff in Communick to try to generate income. I applied to NLNet for a grant for Fediverser, and it's being evaluated. If I get it, then I'll be able to focus again on it, but if not I will be even more pressured to find some other way to make money.
We can turn the mirror into a bridge, and make the conversation two-way. And even if we didn't, you can take part anyway because there will be (hopefully) an increasing number of people there who are actually native to Lemmy.
The thing is that fediverser (my project for mirroring content and to help people migrate) can work transparently with the actual Lemmy community. No need to create separate communities and then getting people to subscribe to two separate things.
I don't know how the matrix model works to be honest, but I think it's a totally different use case.
What do you think about the idea of having the fediverser bots mirroring the subreddit content into the lemmy community? It would help both to bootstrap the lemmy community and also showcase the migration tool.
No. A better analogy would be like phone number portability. You can "own" your number, and if you want to change your company you can take the number with you.
just because i understood doesn’t mean anyone else would.
Then it's on me to adjust my language to the different audience.
Look, you made a request and I already denied it. If you are more concerned with the form over the content of the discussion, please find someone else to pester. I really don't respond well to this hallway monitor attitude. It's this type of tone policing that sometimes makes a normal conversation impossible.
Yeah, totally. My name is Raphael and I people keep confusing me with the Ninja turtle...
I don't want to waste any more time with this ridiculous argument. This is unbelievably boring. If you understand what I mean, then the communication was successful. Instead of nitpicking over the terminology, I would appreciate if you responded instead with something pertinent to the discussion.
I mean as a non-admin. Users on Mastodon are at the mercy of the instance owner. On Bluesky (and nostr) they are not.
My thesis is that content is king. There is a good number of people who are on Reddit not because it's their favorite platform, but because they can't find the content elsewhere.
If we mirror the content on Lemmy, then Lemmy will have the same content as Reddit, then the "lack of content elsewhere" stops being a problem, and then these people will be "free agents".
If we have content here, the "problems" of Lemmy are not going to be seen in such a bad light. Conversely, if Reddit does not have exclusivity of the content, people are not going to feel the need to put up with all their crap.
Having a "two-way" bridge is not necessarily bad, but the more we have people saying "look, someone responded on , to respond, signup via " it will start creating a situation where people will be realize that they can choose between:
I am treating those in the "I will be annoyed by a bot asking me to migrate" as "people who are loyal to Reddit and not willing to move away", so the sooner they block the bridge, the better for everyone. But again, my thesis is that these people are not so numerous as the ones that will just move to the platform that provides them the most content.