this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they really not? Distinct from what?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it definitely is its own legal instance the people hosting the instances are responsible for the content served.

that being said there isn't any legal risk of reddit sueing with this as they dont own the conte t so it should be fine