rglullis

"Botspam" is when you have someone mass sending programs sending messages that do not enrich the content of the network. A bot that is mirroring perfectly good accounts from other platforms is far from the case.

Put another way: if the content is relevant to the point where part of the people want to have it, and if the content being mirrored has a proper context for some members of the community, then we shouldn't count it as spam.

Because it's their responsibility to curate their own feeds. You don't see me asking for people to stop posting stupid memes and the outrage bait of the US news cycle, I just avoid these communities.

Keep pushing/promoting the LW communities...

Ok, but the whole idea of Fediverser is to let people get rid of Twitter/Reddit by giving people an alternative source of content. Sending content there would make those platforms more interesting, not less.

Ok, I have 1.92k comments, not posts.

But why would you want your comments to be on Twitter?

Going through the effort of manually posting screenshots in the sports communities would go way farther than getting a bot to cross post.

Sorry, this is a bit condescending.

Go take a look at my profile. I have almost 2000 posts already. I've been posting 10-20 posts every day to all the different sport communities. Do you think that dedicating a good half-hour every day to read a bunch of feeds and sharing them is not already enough effort?

I'm not saying that we should rely only on mirror accounts, but I'm saying that it makes no sense to ignore them. I'm not proposing to take just a random army of AI slop and put it here. I'm saying that we can look at the places where the content curation already has been made and replicate it here.

If you mean that posts on Lemmy would be mirrored to Twitter, no.

fanaticus.social seems a bit zombified. Instance hasn't been updated since 0.19.3, last I checked the admin hasn't been active for months and the baseball communities (which were in the beginning the most active) were pretty much silent the whole season.

I have a handful of sports-focused instances which would surely benefit from this:

• !nba@nba.space (and communities for every NBA team)
• !nfl@nfl.community (and for the teams)
• !main@soccer.forum (and the main leagues/biggest clubs)
• !tennis@matchpoint.zone

With approaches (2) and (3) we don't have to mirror all of the accounts and we don't have to mirror every post from them.

I'm old enough to remember when Reddit had a built-in RSS feed reader. You could add the RSS feeds you'd like to follow and it would present it to you on a separate page. But the cool thing is that you could up/downvote it like any other link. This meant that every blog entry could become a submission on its own, and all the user had to do was upvote it.

I tried to build something similar on the Fediverser page, but to this there is still too much friction. People need to:

• Sign up to the Fediverser site
• Become a community ambassador
• Add different RSS feeds as content sources
• Get in the habit of visiting the site to repost the contents they think it's interesting.

a lot of low-quality posts that have been vetted by no one

It would be posts made by relevant reporters. So some type of vetting has been done already - by their own editors. ;)

Also: this could be implemented in a way that only presents a queue of posts to moderators, and moderators could then choose what gets published.

quality of Twitter and Reddit deteriorating

This is not really relevant. The idea is to get just the posts from the sport reporters, not the whole comment thread.