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.
I think content import should be a thing across Lemmy, most users moving over have tons of content they've posted on Reddit, and having an easy way to bring that here would be great. But Lemmy isn't really built to handle bulk imports yet, if you simply hit the API of your instance it will flood /New on every instance that's indexed whatever sublemmy is being imported, and it will severely disrupt the use of the sub for a while. If content could be backfilled directly to the database with earlier timestamps it could be done smoothly, though.