All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
Please don’t do this.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
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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.
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
Time to get to work.
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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.
As Reddit turns into a trash, the moderation and content quality will drop. Import the content may seem interesting at first, but in the long run it won’t worth the effort.
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.
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.
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.
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…
I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.
In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.
It’d be a good idea to create an instance with different communities as someone said here for the kind of posts that people could contribute, no matter if reposts are made by people or by bots (in this case, posts need to be filtered by upvotes or upvotes ratio or manually selected), for example some posts I was referring to with my first comment were about some guides or wikis for certain apps, etc. Some important or interesting knowledge that won’t be here and that would make people like me forced to rely on Reddit.
That’s why I said just get the content of those posts and just give credits to the OP without just copying a link to redirect people to Reddit.
In fact, I wouldn’t want this to be filled with Reddit spam posts as most of them are useless.
I’ve been beating this drum since I got on here.
Here’s the software you would need to put it in a special instance: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter
