Should we clone reddit posts? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by doostee@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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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?

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[-] NettoHikari@social.fossware.space 35 points 1 year ago

That already exists. I personally think we should just continue where most of us left off on Reddit and don't bother about it.

[-] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

This is a good point. Also the good stuff will (probably) be manually posted so these tools only duplicate the bad stuff.

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