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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by doostee@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

From a technical and legal standpoint, ignoring ethics and dignity, is there anything preventing us from scripting a scraper that recreates reddit posts in a lemmy instance? Like maybe top 50 posts of the top 20 subreddits, without comments. I think it would help convince people to join, since the major argument for sticking with reddit is that it has more content. Thoughts?

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[-] u_1f914@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/... .
I don't want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.

~Hopefully~ ~the~ ~community~ ~will~ ~grow~ ~naturally~ ~to~ ~a~ ~point~ ~where~ ~it~ ~can~ ~satisfy~ ~my~ ~doom-scrolling~ ~addiction.~

[-] u_1f914@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Seems like the subscript markdown doesn't work on Jerboa yet.
Apologies to anyone bothered by the tildes. 🙇

[-] RandomDevOpsDude@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~test~~

Like this ~~test~~

Edit: You said subscript not stikethrough 🤦

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