Should we clone reddit posts? (programming.dev)

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

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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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[-] ThoughtGoblin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would normalize bot submissions, which is bad for a lot of reasons. Not the least, disproportional bot activity is one of the categories used for defederation for instances like lemm.ee.

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