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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So long as it doesn't overload and weigh down the instance, communities should be allowed to allow migration bots.

That poll seems kind of biased to only have 1 NO, but 2 YESs. The yes votes are split.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was worried about it splitting the votes too, but I think they are just using it as info gathering not necessarily a whichever wins goes