Edit: It seems like there’s enough people that would prefer this didn’t happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I’m not going to move forward with this idea.
I was thinking it’d be nice to have a bot pull top posts from Reddit, and repost them to their corresponding Lemmy analogs to help bolster the content available on Lemmy while it’s growing. I’m not sure if this kind of functionality would be desired by other users, or legal under Reddit ToS. I was thinking that if this was desired, it could be done for cheap under Reddit’s new API costs. An effort would also be made to prevent reposts as well. I would definitely like to hear everyone’s opinions on this.
My thinking on the topic is that if a reddit sub/community decides to make the complete transition to lemmy, the mod team should be free to pull their content in if they choose.
I don’t really see the purpose of porting old content though, unless it has historical value.
That said, anyone can definitely spin up their own instance and grab the full text dump of reddit from before PushShift was disallowed. You’d need to build some tools to do that I suspect.
Edit: clarity
FWIW, I wasn’t looking to pull in anything historical. Just thought it could be handy to pull in current topics from the top of a subreddit for that day. I’m not sure at what frequency it would be pull/post exactly, and it wouldn’t even be repeating everything from a given subreddit. I was also thinking I’d do it all from one user so if someone didn’t like it, they could just block it.
The problem with automatically pulling stuff from reddit is that it dominates the feed because reddit is more popular than lemmy. If you get a post or two a day from reddit that would be fine.