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 the past few days have been working on a quick c# app to simply pull the last 24 hour posts on a subreddit, and allow me to click a button to upload them individually here to kickstart a community to replace the subreddit. I think like what alot of people are saying these tools can help seed communities and boost engagement. i think in the long term we should start to block these tools, but i dont think the time is yet. This is still a new group, and while some communities on this instance are sizable, others are way to small to be sustainable yet :/
Also If we could hopefully prevent the massive amount of content on reddit from disapearing, and give a place to preserve that that would definitly be amazing. although thats easy for me to say as the one who isnt hosting the files :/ (although for some communities the actual data for that isnt that significant, and since lemmy doesnt support galleries yet, galleries are still hosted offsite)
Anyway thanks so much for the work you all are doing, I appreciate that you all went out of your way to enable communities and users to migrate off of reddit and hopefully to help form a better platform.
Hmm I was thinking of making the same. Some communities are just dead till they get bootstrapped with some little spam and then ppl feel encouraged to participate.
Someone else here had a smarter idea honestly of haveing a 48 hour buffer and using the reddit apis up vote ratio, and total karma to filter out alot of the spam. Honestly when I built this I had missed that part of the api, so I'm probably going to rework it in a bit
Id be super interested in doing something like this, using a bot to "seed" a community with content until it picks up steam. Not like 50 posts all at once but maybe one ever few hours to help people find the comunity
I think this will work well if it is very limited - get some content in (ideally by getting permission from the 3 biggest posters and pulling theirs over) but then ban it.
HFY, Admiral_cloudberg, certain meme community's.... NSFW subs could do it by asking one poster
Even just having an easier way to post, like post scheduling etc. Ive got content to seed my community but posting it so it doesnt spam is difficult