Bots of this type have appeared recently, and people are asking if it’s okay to use them. I’m not sure about this either, so I think it would make sense to ask users.

These bots follow some subreddits on Reddit and automatically post it to Lemmy when a post is created there.

I’ve seen an example site for it: lemmit.online. This instance is dedicated solely to mirroring Reddit posts to the Lemmy instance.

Maybe instead of mirroring to a community on Lemmy NSFW, we can subscribe to lemmit.online via Lemmy NSFW. This way we could have kept Lemmy NSFW free of bots. Currently, even if accepted, I believe it should be done under admin control to prevent duplicates.

Here is the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRw82byN

I’m open to suggestions.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t like reposts in general and certainly not automated bots.

    Lemmit is certainly useful for us who don’t want to visit Reddit but don’t want to miss on certain content, but that’s what that instance is for. So keep the bots to instances like that, and the rest of Lemmy as free of bots as possible.