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.

  • kattoboiy@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    If something like that should be allowed, I think it should be marked with a tag/flag/flair (if that’s a thing on Lemmy) so that you can easily filter them out if you want to.

    • wankbank@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      There is a setting on an account that says it’s a bot account and I think I remember seeing it mentioned after the username in a similar way to how nsfw posts are flagged.