I think it could help keep a steady stream of posts if that’s what people want. I’m not seeing much discussion happening here though

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    I’ve been thinking about that as well.
    Perhaps something along the lines of reading a feed from the Mangadex API

    However, although I’d like the “Manga” magazine to grow, I do feel like I’m a bit stuck in the Reddit mindset.
    Part of the appeal of being a “Federated” instance is that you can get content from anywhere, regardless what instance is the origin.
    So, it shouldn’t matter if I go to the manga “magazine” or get the feed from elsewhere.
    This is very much at odds with how I previously consumed content though.

    Unlike Twitter where you follow a hashtag, Reddit taught me I should go to sub-communities if I want to follow discussion.

    So should we just neglect magazines and simply comment under individual posts found under a #hashstag or drag Reddit’s style of browsing into Fediverse?

    In any case, as far as I know the Kbin API doesn’t yet support a bot that’d post like that.
    You could, however, simply make a bot that uses the UI (using JS to fill out fields) to post things.
    It’d break the moment it faces something like Cloudflare or any other anti-bot measure, though.

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      I thought about it some more after making a Lemmy account. While Kbin API isn’t finalized, couldn’t we make a Manga-Lemmy to post here? As far as I know, Lemmy’s API is more mature.

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          I admittedly don’t either, but I’m near a part in my course that works with API. I should be able to do something in the coming days. I took a look and it seems like Lemmy has all the API I need for this, too. I’m hopeful.

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    I looked at the KBin docs a few days ago, and didn’t see any way to post information. There’s ways to get info, but that was about it. If it changes, I’ll look into it. Not having a bot is bugging me, too. The one on Reddit does a lot of leg work during the week.