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?

  • itchick2014 [Ohio]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    lemmit.online already has this and I blocked the communities of that instance because I don’t want Reddit content…I want Lemmy content.

    If you do decide to do it, use a bot specific instance with bot specific communities. Don’t flood existing communities with bot content.