Bots of this type have appeared recently, and people are asking if it’s okay to use them. I’m not sure about this either, so I think it would make sense to ask users.
These bots follow some subreddits on Reddit and automatically post it to Lemmy when a post is created there.
I’ve seen an example site for it: lemmit.online. This instance is dedicated solely to mirroring Reddit posts to the Lemmy instance.
Maybe instead of mirroring to a community on Lemmy NSFW, we can subscribe to lemmit.online via Lemmy NSFW. This way we could have kept Lemmy NSFW free of bots. Currently, even if accepted, I believe it should be done under admin control to prevent duplicates.
Here is the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRw82byN
I’m open to suggestions.
I’m seeing a lot of bots archiving imgur links, too. The content was removed ages ago, it’s just a dead link.
right and do we want just a bunch of dead links? I think not.
Honestly I think that’s some botters being a bit lazy… like anyone whose been in these communities should know that all imgur links are dead now, there should just be a line exlucing those from their pool of links to pull from