Possible? Yea.
Personally I've went ahead to block all the big bots doing it. It adds a lot of submissions but with few to no comments, and there's little point responding to a Reddit-ported question here when the person who asked it didn't even ask it here.
If you want more content then make submissions and start conversations.
It seems like it might not be a great idea - there wouldn't be any opportunity for discussion and it could get confusing (like if someone has a question for the reddit OP).
I'd be more interested to know if there is some way to connect with what's going on on Mastodon (see @[email protected]). There are a ton of #fountainpens related posts happening over there. I have a vague understanding that lemmy and mastodon are both part of the fediverse and that there is some cross-talk possible, but I don't know the details. If there were a way to interface with those parts so that there can be back and forth, that would be pretty cool.
I can see the penfount account via lemmy (i.e. https://lemmy.world/u/[email protected] though probably ymmv depending on your instance) but don't see any way to interact and also don't see any posts. Mysteries of the fediverse I guess!
Do you mean have a post appear here whenever there is a new post in /r/fountainpens?
Yep
Thanks for confirming! Yes, it's possible - but I don't plan to look into. It for the exact reasons listed in other comments.
From Reddit? You can do it manually if you like.
I mean automatic crossposting to fill the community, I've seen others use a bot for this
