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Why are we copying over so much Reddit content? (self.reddit)
submitted 2 years ago by AFKBRBChocolate to c/[email protected]
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I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me.

I can kind of see it if a Reddit mod decides to move their forum from there to here, and wants to start with their existing content, but otherwise I'm not sure this is a good thing.

What do you guys think?

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[โ€“] AFKBRBChocolate 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it was a user who posted content there and decided they'd rather have it here, that would make sense. But this appears to be bots scraping Reddit subs for content and copying big chunks here. I don't know about you, but I'm not likely to respond to that kind of post. I don't think it fosters discussion or helps us.

[โ€“] L3s 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm doing it with communities that need a jump-start, and it seems to be sparking conversation in those posts. However, I'm not grabbing discussions, only links/title/description.

https://github.com/daniel-lxs/BotIt this is the devs git for anyone else who wants to help jump-start communities.

Edit: also trying not to spam, it checks top posts once an hour, and only will post one link an hour to each sub, and checks if the link was already posted to make sure it's not duplicating.