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Why is it frowned upon here to 'steal' content from reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If anything, shouldn't it be encouraged, and even automated? I'm including even the 'old' stuff from reddit here. Reddit shouldn't be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users. When I migrated here, it wasn't because of me being against reddit users, but being against reddit the company. Copying the content here actually hurts the company in sense that they don't get to then gatekeep the crowdsourced content.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit shouldn't be the absolute owner of the content submitted by users.

And neither should you, nor anyone else here running a reddit scraper bot.

If users want to (re-)post their content here as well, awesome, but automatically scraping reddit to repost other people's content (which they then don't know about, and can't really interact with or control like it's their own content.) is just spam imo.

Create and post your own original content while letting others worry about their own content. People can make their own decisions, why should you have the right to override that?