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?
I personally find those scraped posts annoying in other communities. First the formatting looks ugly in the list view. Second it just feels awkward to even interact with such a post, especially if it’s a question where the real content is in the comment section on reddit.