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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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Lemmy is based on a pull model, so if nobody on a different instance subscribes then it doesn't show up on anybody else's feeds. If an admin doesn't want that in their "All" feeds, they can block the instance.
Just make sure it's on its own instance with nothing else, something like that is bound to be EXTREMELY noisy, and not all admins are gonna be happy about it. I assume that's what you meant by closed?
Yeah, exactly.
Also to reduce the chances of it colliding with an existing community. It would be an entire Lemmy instance dedicated to reddit mirroring, Lemmit ;)
But to be fair, I wasn't particularly looking forward to hosting and maintaining my own instance, but coding the tool part should be easy.
Just be aware that it might not work. Reddit implemented rate limits on page loads to combat the inevitable web scraping as they turn off the API. Test out how fast you can pull pages before putting in any real coding time.
This whole time I was wondering how the API changes made any sense when anyone disgruntled about it could just turn to scraping, putting drastically more load on Reddit's infrastructure. It makes me feel a bit better that they aren't that clueless.