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.

  • @[email protected]M
    2•2 years ago

    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

    • Rayquetzalcoatl
      3•2 years ago

      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!

      • @[email protected]M
        0•2 years ago

        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.

        • Rayquetzalcoatl
          1•2 years ago

          True, I guess it’s an “if you don’t like it, don’t look at it” sorta thing