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.

  • Padded PersonEnglish
    8•2 years ago

    Sorry i wanted to add one more thing: it would be really nice if there was a way to do this without flooding new… as i think the people doing this dont really want to impact other communities (I just realized this is an issue, as i started porting content before realizing)

    One way we could try to minimize impact ( which is what im going to do for now) is ask anyone porting content to do it in off hours (like midnight EST would cover all of US and most of europe ?)