Legal, probably. Bad taste? Yeah, definitely. I get the idea, but the people who are still posting over there having their shit just get copied over here is going to give people a bad impression of the fediverse. If the fediverse is strong enough to replace reddit, then it can stand on its own and make it’s own unique stuff.

I don’t love the idea, although I understand why it might seem like a good one.

I left Reddit because of the decisions they made. I’m sure plenty of the people here did the same. We didn’t like Reddit, so let’s do something different, rather than just trying to make Reddit again here.

New content, new community, new infrastructure - a different setup might lead to a different, hopefully better, outcome!

Just my opinion though, and I do totally understand why more content would be a good idea!

Reddit didnt create any of its content. WE did. So, ethically, I see no problem.

I know their API has rules against doing stuff like that. So you may get your API key blocked if you did it.

Also, for a long time I had a ITTT bot copying the top videos content to a Google sheets doc. I only did it for science, but it ran until they stopped supporting that.

I’d say if someone is planning to do this just create a new lemmy explicitly for this purpose. I don’t think it would be healthy for existing communities if too many posts are just copied from reddit with no OP to engage with.

i hope not, i don’t know how else to start building up the communities i recreated

if someone recognizes a meme they made i will 100% give them credit in the post

Personally I don’t like the idea.

I honestly think Lemmy should not just be a clone of Reddit (either in terms of trying to match functionality exactly or filling it up with content from Reddit).

I get where you’re coming from in terms of trying to bolster the amount of content but truly I think Lemmy will do just fine with original content.

Apart from anything else, imho the quality of posts here on Lemmy that I’ve seen so far are, generally, quite good. Reddit seems to have been going downhill and I wouldn’t be surprised if the quality on Reddit gets worse following the current issues.

As someone else mentioned, maybe an instance or community could host that content but I think it would be important that users would be able to block it if they don’t want to see it.

I’ve been blocking every bot that does that. All the discussion on those posts takes place on Reddit, and I’d prefer my feed to be filled with posts that I can actually view the discussion on without feeding a shitty corporation more traffic.

I feel like the new communities are budding just fine. I say let nature take its course.

The content wasn’t made by reddit; it was made by the community. It would be good to credit the author though.

I don’t think I’d automate it, especially because going forward that content is something that whoever posted, intended the post to go to reddit, not lemmy. Especially if it’s someone asking for advice or something personal like that.

However, if it’s a link to a youtube video or a tiktok or a news article or something, I see no reason why you couldn’t essentially cross post that. But again, I don’t think I’d automate it because then if they added some sort of commentary around it, you’d be just copying them. But copy the link and add your own commentary, I think that’s fine.

My thinking on the topic is that if a reddit sub/community decides to make the complete transition to lemmy, the mod team should be free to pull their content in if they choose.

I don’t really see the purpose of porting old content though, unless it has historical value.

That said, anyone can definitely spin up their own instance and grab the full text dump of reddit from before PushShift was disallowed. You’d need to build some tools to do that I suspect.

Edit: clarity

If your not can properly pull the content of the post and post it to Lemmy as a Lemmy post, and not as a link to a reddit post, do it. Who gives a shit how Reddit feels about it. But if its just going to be a link to a reddit post witg a description in it, don’t even bother, theres plenty of that going on and it’s all devoid of interaction because that interaction is happening on reddit, you’d essentially just be building a funnel to move activity off Lemmy back to reddit.

Given the precedent that search engines frequently return results from other search engines, then this would seem to be legal. But since Reddit actually hosts the data, they would most likely use legal means/DCMA to take down the bot. The real question is, can you afford as many lawyers as Reddit? Probably not. But maybe if the strategy is just to pull people over in the short term, it could work. I’m not going to do it, not worth the risk to myself.

I think like other posters said, it’s best to keep the content separate. I feel a lot more positivity coming from Kbin/Lemmy. It’s as if a million trolls cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I’m appreciating this for what it is, let’s hope it stays that way.

Nah fuckem, raid their meme stores for all they are worth

I think it’s a great idea for the short term growth of the fediverse