Hi, I have a bot that I use to mirror posts from one of my favourite Reddit communities onto Lemmy (!2visegrad4you@lemmy.ml), since there are not enough active users on lemmy for the community to be self-sufficient just yet. Still, it seems it was popular as the reposts were getting upvotes.
My bot got banned from lemmy.ml 3 days ago so I just wanted to ask why. Is there a rule against Reddit reposters (and where)? Is this a lemmy.ml policy or a Lemmy-wide policy?
Thanks
Probably instance policy, there are not Lemmy-wide policies except respecting the laws
Respecting laws… Except copyright and many others…
Not sure what you mean about this, are there communities/instances not respecting copyright?
Yes. we have many piracy communities… Maybe their instances are blocked by yours.
IIRC, their stance is to never host/link copyrighted content, only how to access it