Edit: It seems like there’s enough people that would prefer this didn’t happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I’m not going to move forward with this idea.
I was thinking it’d be nice to have a bot pull top posts from Reddit, and repost them to their corresponding Lemmy analogs to help bolster the content available on Lemmy while it’s growing. I’m not sure if this kind of functionality would be desired by other users, or legal under Reddit ToS. I was thinking that if this was desired, it could be done for cheap under Reddit’s new API costs. An effort would also be made to prevent reposts as well. I would definitely like to hear everyone’s opinions on this.
I’ve been blocking every bot that does that. All the discussion on those posts takes place on Reddit, and I’d prefer my feed to be filled with posts that I can actually view the discussion on without feeding a shitty corporation more traffic.
Legal, probably. Bad taste? Yeah, definitely. I get the idea, but the people who are still posting over there having their shit just get copied over here is going to give people a bad impression of the fediverse. If the fediverse is strong enough to replace reddit, then it can stand on its own and make it’s own unique stuff.
Have you been paying attention to Reddit content for the past I don’t even know how many years? It’s all TikTok and twitter reposts, and before that it was 9gag and 4chan reposts. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what op is asking if the past is anything to go off of
But do we want Lemmy to be reposts of Reddit which is reposts of TikTok, Twitter, 9gag, and 4chan? I’d say fresh content here would be the best foot forward to start with!
Its a link aggregator. If the content is good then post it here. Including links to interesting reddit threads.
I mean the beauty of the fediverse is you can have your cake and eat it too in this scenario. If someone wants to spin up an instance that’s just reposts that duplicate communities elsewhere, you could selectively subscribe to both or only the one without reposts.
True, I guess it’s an “if you don’t like it, don’t look at it” sorta thing
My thinking on the topic is that if a reddit sub/community decides to make the complete transition to lemmy, the mod team should be free to pull their content in if they choose.
I don’t really see the purpose of porting old content though, unless it has historical value.
That said, anyone can definitely spin up their own instance and grab the full text dump of reddit from before PushShift was disallowed. You’d need to build some tools to do that I suspect.
Edit: clarity
FWIW, I wasn’t looking to pull in anything historical. Just thought it could be handy to pull in current topics from the top of a subreddit for that day. I’m not sure at what frequency it would be pull/post exactly, and it wouldn’t even be repeating everything from a given subreddit. I was also thinking I’d do it all from one user so if someone didn’t like it, they could just block it.
The problem with automatically pulling stuff from reddit is that it dominates the feed because reddit is more popular than lemmy. If you get a post or two a day from reddit that would be fine.
Reddit didnt create any of its content. WE did. So, ethically, I see no problem.
I know their API has rules against doing stuff like that. So you may get your API key blocked if you did it.
Also, for a long time I had a ITTT bot copying the top videos content to a Google sheets doc. I only did it for science, but it ran until they stopped supporting that.
If your not can properly pull the content of the post and post it to Lemmy as a Lemmy post, and not as a link to a reddit post, do it. Who gives a shit how Reddit feels about it. But if its just going to be a link to a reddit post witg a description in it, don’t even bother, theres plenty of that going on and it’s all devoid of interaction because that interaction is happening on reddit, you’d essentially just be building a funnel to move activity off Lemmy back to reddit.
