Reddy is a small app that I’ve developped over the past few days, and I want to show it to you so you can give me your thoughts, advices and ideas for the app.

Reddy is a GTK Linux app that takes an image (PNG, JPEG, GIF) at random in a subreddit and allows you to repost it in any Lemmy community. I made it principally to share content easily on Lemmy, as Reddit becomes more and more abusive and I think having copies of some content of reddit here on Lemmy is not a bad idea.

The app comes with a few restriction to prevent abuse:

  • You cannot repost the image twice in the same community
  • The reddit post link will always be shown in the body of the post. To give credit where credit is due.

Also, the app fetch the title and NSFW status of the reddit post automatically, but you can change it as needed.

The app require a reddit API client id/secret (The free API seems to still be working as of now) and a Lemmy account.

I’d love to hear your thoughts about such app, if you have any concerns as an user or as an instance owner please share your thoughts!

EDIT: Reddy is out for everyone to try out on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.krafting.Reddy

  • Krafting@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    6 months ago

    Yes that’s true, every Fediverse platform is a more or less the same, poeple don’t want to come because there’s not enough content, so there is not enough content, and the cycle repeat itself…

    Wishing won’t ever help that’s true, but I’m doing my part in the best way I can! I believe there are already bots that can replicate reddit posts and answer, I’ve seen one of these around, I don’t remember which one tho…

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Wishing won’t ever help that’s true, but I’m doing my part in the best way I can!

      You’re doing good, TY for contributing.

      FYI, while I am responding to you directly, I’m also ‘Speaking to the Choir’ as in may, as there’s usually a negative pushback to cloning Reddit content onto Lemmy.

      I always just assume it’s Reddit bots trying not to lose the only advantage they have, the content they already hold/contain.

      But it also could just be Lemmy users who only want a ‘pure’ experience, and ‘larger population / market share’ and success be damned.

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