All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
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”.
Please don’t do this.
Bots in general suck.
But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.
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
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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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 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.
I’ve been toying with this idea at well. I don’t think it’s a good idea to scrape all content. This could drown out the lemmy-original content, especially when large subreddits are concerned. Maybe an upvote threshold (Only scrape if more than X upvotes) would be a good idea.
I would also scrape only the post itself, not the comments. Best to have our own organic discussions here.
Finally it should be very clear that a bot is posting these things. Ideally the bot would also ensure it is not re-posting something that was already posted by a Lemmy users just a bit earlier.
