What’s stopping us from using the api to post all of reddit here in a massive one-time merger?

Obviously the Lemmy devs would have to do it, but would there be legal issues? I think it would solve most of the problems with Lemmy, really.

  • 7eter@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For links only that’s possible. And one community i know have the top links from their reddit counterpart mirrored here even partly automated.

    For any kind of media and even text that would infringe the copyright of the author. And could put the instance in risk of legal action.

    Therefore i see much more potential in getting the content creators and commenters here - just like it is happening already.

    • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it should definitely be done by a community, that would absolutely make things make sense, we need a bot that automatically scrapes and posts.

      The biggest thing stopping people from using lemmy seems to be content missing, if we can overcome that we’d change the game.

        • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I think what would be best is just doing it once, so that we can access all the content, but we move forward as a separate website, what do you think of that?

          • 7heo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I tell you what, a single 20TB hard drive goes for around 500 bucks these days. You go buy one, and you start scraping. Let’s see how that goes.

            Edit: if you actually do that, you better prioritize your subreddits properly, because I wouldn’t be surprised if you can’t even fit a single subreddit on there, if you go for a popular one.

            Edit 2: There’s a joke to be made, here: if you use ZFS, you might actually fit reddit entirely on a single hard drive, given the sheer amount of reposts… :D

            • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Honestly, I wouldn’t know where to begin, but if someone would be willing to help me, I don’t see why not!

                • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  I might be able to do it for just my favorite communities, but yeah the big 20tb issue taking weeks is a dealbreaker for one person doing ALL of it.

                  But if there was a way to make it easy to mirror a subreddit for an individual who owns a lemmy community… then maybe we could get something to work.