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.
It’s easy to make one. But why would you want that?
As time goes by and more and more people join the Fediverse, I’m sure some niche comms will start taking off. I don’t like bots mirroring content from somewhere else, even as a help. In fact, I will immediately unsubscribe from any comm that starts doing that. And I’m sure many people also would.
As I’ve said before, these communities already have nobody engaging in them. Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.
Inactive communities should be locked down and redirect to more generalist active communities.
If your specific JRPG game community is inactive, lock the community and redirect to [email protected]
For a most niches on lemmy, there aren’t alternative communities that are more active.