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Twoafros Nov 21

Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/50198435

Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse? - sh.itjust.works

Is there way to mirror reddit to piefed/lemmy, youtube videos on peertube, tumblr on wafrn, or IG posts on pixelfed etc

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hendrik Nov 21

PeerTube has that built in. You can set up a channel and have it import or mirror a Youtube channel. For Lemmy there’s several bots and scripts. As other people said that’s what lemmit.online is about.

Be a bit careful when rolling this out. Several people don’t like it. They’ve left Reddit for a reason and this is drowning them in bot activity. And usually these posts are low engagement, Reddit users can’t see the comments, so you’re not getting a lot of answers. I think it’s good practice how we here have separated that to dedicated instances, so users can just have genuine conversations everywhere else.

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Twoafros Nov 21

Thanks, I didn’t know Peertube had a built in tool for mirroring a channel. I will look into that.

I just found out about lemmit.online from the other answers and I agree with you on having be a different instance is good practice.

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hendrik

Alright. And for your information, the Peertube function is a bit broken. I think the Peertube developers did their best. But Youtube has a lot of datacenter IP address ranges blocked. And they do rate-limiting and force people to sign in after downloading a few videos. Plus yt-dlp (which it relies upon and Youtube are playing this cat and mouse game… So it’s disabled on most instances because it doesn’t really work. I was able to make it work on my instance, but I had to jump through several hoops. Configure a SOCKS proxy and tunnel it over my home, residential internet connection. And I think I transferred my login cookies as well.