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Naaaah I only scraped the design, the content will be curated by me and my team
This should be in your title. Your title sounds like you're ripping off user data from Piefed in order to put ads on it.
This is why you have 60 downvotes and all these people calling you an unethical jerk.
I think you are confusing terms. Scraping a website means to download copies of its pages. Mirroring means taking those scraped page copies and re-hosting them on your website. Since you said you were doing both of those things, that would mean you would be mass scraping the site to rehost (mirror) on yours.
If you are not doing either of those, then you are not mass scraping or mirroring. It sounds like instead you just scraped a few pages of piefed, and then modified the CSS/HTML of the page itself for your own purposes?
If so, that's not as bad as I thought.
However, I can guarantee you that no one here is interested in joining an isolated reddit clone that isn't federated with Piefed or lemmy, and which is explicitly designed to eventually allow you to throw ads on it for passive income. That is precisely what we all were trying to escape when we left reddit for the fediverse.