Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.

Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.

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[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's not true. There's one bot that routinely posts to news communities called "MicroWave" and there are consistently people engaging with its posts.

Most people don't even recognize it's a bot.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Microwave is not a bot

https://lemmy.world/post/34751749/18910079

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

18.4k posts, and his only two comments are those.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Still not a bot.

If that account is a bot, it should be flagged as such, and LW admins are usually looking closely at those cases.

@MrKaplan@lemmy.world, I assume you checked whether Microwave was a bot or not?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is true. Check out the lemm.it instance it tried to do exactly what you're talking about about

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Somebody already mentioned that, and I mentioned how all the communities are all locked and literally only the bot can post.

It also appears to only mirror reddit, with no connection to other lemmy instances.

This is not what I am talking about adding.