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?
There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/… .
I don’t want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.
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Rules
Rules
Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you’re posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don’t want to watch videos
There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/… .
I don’t want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.
Hopefully the community will grow naturally to a point where it can satisfy my doom-scrolling addiction.
Seems like the subscript markdown doesn’t work on Jerboa yet.
Apologies to anyone bothered by the tildes. 🙇