All the content, none of the Spez? Or, is it better if Lemmy stays distinct?
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It’s inconvenient, but not impossible. The content could be scraped instead of handed over directly via the API.
An explanation, if you’re interested:
API stands for Application Programming Interface. It is a way for two software applications to communicate with each other. APIs are often used to access data from websites. When you use an API, you are essentially asking the website for the data you need. The website will then provide the data to you in a format that your software can understand.
Web scraping is a process of extracting data from websites using automated tools. Web scrapers can be used to extract data from any website, regardless of whether the website has an API. However, web scraping can be more difficult and time-consuming than using an API.
In general, APIs are the preferred method for accessing data from websites. They are easier to use, more legal, and less likely to interfere with the website. However, web scraping can be used in cases where there is no API or where the API is not sufficient.
In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.
If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.
I’m not entirely against the idea, but also really don’t want to turn the fediverse into the flood of content that is reddit. Maybe some kind of relative upvote filter based bot. Only posts that get some certain percentage of above average number for a given sub, get scraped.
I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn’t need to be reddit anyway.
It’d be kind of nice to play catch up a bit with the, what, 18 years of content on Reddit
I know it might feel soulless, but having a constant stream of “pre-approved” content isn’t the worst idea
Please don’t do this.
I say keep it distinct.
Reddit has had its day.
A few comments, some of which have been touched on by others:
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One of the reasons Reddit went to the new pricing was to prevent LLMs from scraping their content and using it for free. I don’t think a bot like this would work for the same reason.
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I personally don’t want a duplicate of Reddit. I’d prefer this to be a new community that can do better.
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One of the things that drove me away from Reddit (besides their horrible handling of 3PAs) was all the bot posts. If there were a way to make sure that bot accounts were identified as such, that would be perfect. Hell, I’d rather have zero bot posts than the current state of Reddit.
TLDR: I vote no.
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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.
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 many would be more interested in a migration tool. A way of porting a subreddit’s worth of content to lemmy and start off strong, as well as preserve what might be several subreddits getting nuked as damage control.
You could dedicate a community to reddit reposts easy enough. If people want to see the stuff from reddit they can sub, if they would rather wash their hands of reddit they can ignore it or block it.
I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.
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.
