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red2lem (fork/PR) - a bot to crosspost from reddit to lemmy

Hey everyone.

Recently I found the "red2lem" bot here.

I forked it and made some changes to the code.

I've only tested it using Docker, but I think (?) it also should work independently of it.

Purpose of the Bot

The bot monitors a subreddit of your choosing, and it'll crosspost all posts to a lemmy community of your choosing. I guess it could be nice, if somebody wanted to create a mirror'ed community or something.

What does a mirrored post look like?

You can see an example here and here.

This is with the ENV title_template set to "[♻️ /u/{author_name}] - {submission_title}"

I want to try it out!

If you want to try it out, you can check the PR I made to the original repository.

Quick Docker Compose example

If you're too lazy, and don't want to go the P