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.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    9 hours ago

    This already exists, I have seen it used before, don’t know any exact repositories though. The reason it’s not really used is because it’s pointless. What are you trying to achieve with it? Your community won’t look more active if it has more posts with zero upvotes and zero comments all made by the same user.

    Hiding posts from bots will also hide posts from this bot.

    Keep in mind that not everyone here uses Lemmy, so a Lemmy feature isn’t a good defense in a federated world like this.