All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.
Please don’t do this.
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Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it’s spammy it’ll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.
But I also liked the…(whispers) cosplay…
That’s something I don’t miss. Not that I don’t admire it, I just keep thinking “wow that’s cool but christ what I could do with the money they spent on that”.
I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.
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Nah. This is a fresh start. It’s been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It’ll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit
I think the community is much more important than just having more content. I would worry that by flooding Lemmy with Reddit’s content without the community to support that content could drown everyone out.
Yeah I agree. I think being able to tweak a personalised scraper as an opt in service per community could work. Some subs just won’t work for this, like askreddit and Eli5, but niche communities, news communities and information communities. I would be happy just seeing the top 2 or 3 posts of the day for some, and for world news for example, only the posts that pass a certain threshold of upvotes in a certain time or against the subs size, to make sure the real news pops up quick.
I think reposting content from reddit is fine, but we don’t need a bot for it. I’d rather see individuals bring over specific posts they think are notable as opposed to automatically copying everything they’ve got.
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I mean, any bot you spin up is going to go away at the end of the month when they kill API access, right?
You can always scrape, or use your cookies. There are ways around this for one off bots. Not that I’m an advocate.
eh, maybe wait until 0.18 rolls out across the fediverse before scraping reddit for content
Oh? What’s that going to do? I’m out of the loop.
0.17.4 is what is used now and it has a number of issues - included the new/scrolling bug. 0.18 is supposed to fix that & other issues as well.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
Use what fediverse is good at. Make an instance where these bots reside and anyone who doesn’t want them can just defederate.
In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.
Bots in general suck.
But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.
