Is there a kbin API to allow posts? I had a look quickly at the docs and could only see get requests.

I ask this, as reddit can be ‘crawled’ simply by adding .json to the end of a user or sub (https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux.json for example). It should be possible to copy vast swaths of reddit over to kbin to build some history here, as well as potentially sync the data from reddit over to keep us from FOMO.

#RedditMigration

  • ono
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    1 year ago

    The term you’re looking for is “bridge”.

    I don’t know if one exists for lemmy/kbin/reddit.

  • markrprior@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @nydas from a technical perspective you could need a program that could interpret the JSON and pick out the bits necessary to reformat it into a post for kbin. The question of whether this would remain as an option after the API changes is left to the reader :-)

    If you were doing this solely for your own content then there probably wouldn’t a problem doing that but would you have permission to also include contributions from others?

    The concept seems similar to the bridges between Twitter and Mastodon and I think that was generally thought of as a bad idea, and a number of places blocked it.