Everyone became convinced that 'old memes' were the new thing (possibly in response to the popularity of Antique Memes Roadshow) and they swamped out everything else on All
That's not much of a list. It should probably also include shows like Industry and House of the Dragon, which are filmed in the UK with a mostly non-SAG cast
Accidental Renaissance on Reddit was set to private by its mods, who opened up here instead. I don't know how subscribers on Reddit there was, but yesterday's surge now means there's 1659 Lemmy subscribers.So yes, there's some movement, but I doubt it's a "mass exodus"
Just start one (a community, that is). There's not some marauding band of trolls out there, waiting to give you a hard time. If it's niche enough, it'll be a highlight just to see someone-who-isn't-you post something!
PRAW is the Python wrapper for Reddit's API, and searching github for "lemmy api python" revealed some results, so you'd use one API to download a post, and the other to upload it.
There's existing bots that do this though, and they all seem to just fill feeds with indiscriminate, un-replied to, spam
Follow the link from the LinkFixerBot so it'll load that community whilst keeping you logged in on your instance, and you'll see a big "Subscribe" button.
Just this one for posting. I was messing around with the API and couldn't figure out how to log in, so I created another account at an instance populated by weirdos, and spammed that instead with my many wrong and malformed attempts.
I think you're limited to when the first person on your instance subscribed to a community on another instance - from that point on, all posts/votes/comments will shared with your instance and be visible, but before that, I'm not sure (you might get the post, but not the comments, or you might not get the post at all).
I wanted to comment on a couple of 2-year old posts I found via google - when searching from my instance, I found one post (but no comments), but not the other post. When I added my comment and re-viewed it through google, it was there alongside the 2-year old ones.
If lots of people are signed up to lots of different instances, then a 'fediverse' will grow as expected, but if a majority are congregated on a few big ones, it limits the potential for spread.
I'm still trying to understand all this, so I might be wrong.
Everyone's having lots of fun dunking of The Idol - Andy Greenwald from The Watch podcast said the finale was the worst hour of TV he'd ever seen. It's rare for HBO to produce a complete stinker. I don't know if I even want to hate-watch it.
Everyone's free to like what they like obviously, but "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" would also be at the top of a parody of this kind of list.
For any weird, bigoted stuff, lots of downvotes and no replies is hopefully the message an OP needs to receive to get the hint that they should by plying their recruitment attempts elsewhere. Engaging them is probably the worst thing to do.
I've had to remember that there's automatic hiding though, and do that manually.
This post is very old, but it's what came up when I googled it, so for anyone else, here's some basic scripts for logging in and then using the authentication to get something that may help you get started in exploring the API.
It's true for subscribers - you can compare your view, with the result on something like browse.feddit.de or lemmyverse.net, which give the total count.
Dunno about upvotes though, that must be universal, surely?
It's blockable fortunately - maybe not via whatever app your using, but if you log into your instance website with a browser, you can choose to block the bot (at) lemmit (dot) online
Everyone became convinced that 'old memes' were the new thing (possibly in response to the popularity of Antique Memes Roadshow) and they swamped out everything else on All