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.

  • yayOPMAEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I guess yes. Even if it doesn’t, supporting ones will show up soon probably.

    • data_curratorEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Even as NSFW subs become unavailable via API at the end of the month?

      • wankbankEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        If it’s got its own API key, it’ll probably stay under the limits, and if not there’s other ways like RSS/Atom or web scraping.

      • C9H18OEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I believe lemmit.online scrapes subreddits using RSS feeds, so it will likely continue to work until Reddit does away with RSS feeds.