All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.
Nah. This is a fresh start. It’s been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It’ll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit
Please don’t do this.
I’m not entirely against the idea, but also really don’t want to turn the fediverse into the flood of content that is reddit. Maybe some kind of relative upvote filter based bot. Only posts that get some certain percentage of above average number for a given sub, get scraped.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.
I think reposting content from reddit is fine, but we don’t need a bot for it. I’d rather see individuals bring over specific posts they think are notable as opposed to automatically copying everything they’ve got.
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It’s inconvenient, but not impossible. The content could be scraped instead of handed over directly via the API.
An explanation, if you’re interested:
API stands for Application Programming Interface. It is a way for two software applications to communicate with each other. APIs are often used to access data from websites. When you use an API, you are essentially asking the website for the data you need. The website will then provide the data to you in a format that your software can understand.
Web scraping is a process of extracting data from websites using automated tools. Web scrapers can be used to extract data from any website, regardless of whether the website has an API. However, web scraping can be more difficult and time-consuming than using an API.
In general, APIs are the preferred method for accessing data from websites. They are easier to use, more legal, and less likely to interfere with the website. However, web scraping can be used in cases where there is no API or where the API is not sufficient.
In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.
I think the community is much more important than just having more content. I would worry that by flooding Lemmy with Reddit’s content without the community to support that content could drown everyone out.
Yeah I agree. I think being able to tweak a personalised scraper as an opt in service per community could work. Some subs just won’t work for this, like askreddit and Eli5, but niche communities, news communities and information communities. I would be happy just seeing the top 2 or 3 posts of the day for some, and for world news for example, only the posts that pass a certain threshold of upvotes in a certain time or against the subs size, to make sure the real news pops up quick.
eh, maybe wait until 0.18 rolls out across the fediverse before scraping reddit for content
Oh? What’s that going to do? I’m out of the loop.
0.17.4 is what is used now and it has a number of issues - included the new/scrolling bug. 0.18 is supposed to fix that & other issues as well.
A few comments, some of which have been touched on by others:
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One of the reasons Reddit went to the new pricing was to prevent LLMs from scraping their content and using it for free. I don’t think a bot like this would work for the same reason.
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I personally don’t want a duplicate of Reddit. I’d prefer this to be a new community that can do better.
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One of the things that drove me away from Reddit (besides their horrible handling of 3PAs) was all the bot posts. If there were a way to make sure that bot accounts were identified as such, that would be perfect. Hell, I’d rather have zero bot posts than the current state of Reddit.
TLDR: I vote no.
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Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it’s spammy it’ll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.
But I also liked the…(whispers) cosplay…
That’s something I don’t miss. Not that I don’t admire it, I just keep thinking “wow that’s cool but christ what I could do with the money they spent on that”.
Use what fediverse is good at. Make an instance where these bots reside and anyone who doesn’t want them can just defederate.
Bots in general suck.
But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.
