Asklemmy

Please don't do this.

I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn't need to be reddit anyway.

I think reposting content from reddit is fine, but we don't need a bot for it. I'd rather see individuals bring over specific posts they think are notable as opposed to automatically copying everything they've got.

Nah. This is a fresh start. It's been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It'll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit

If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.

As Reddit turns into a trash, the moderation and content quality will drop. Import the content may seem interesting at first, but in the long run it won't worth the effort.

eh, maybe wait until 0.18 rolls out across the fediverse before scraping reddit for content

I think the community is much more important than just having more content. I would worry that by flooding Lemmy with Reddit's content without the community to support that content could drown everyone out.

I'm not entirely against the idea, but also really don't want to turn the fediverse into the flood of content that is reddit. Maybe some kind of relative upvote filter based bot. Only posts that get some certain percentage of above average number for a given sub, get scraped.

Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it's spammy it'll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.

I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.

In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.

It'd be a good idea to create an instance with different communities as someone said here for the kind of posts that people could contribute, no matter if reposts are made by people or by bots (in this case, posts need to be filtered by upvotes or upvotes ratio or manually selected), for example some posts I was referring to with my first comment were about some guides or wikis for certain apps, etc. Some important or interesting knowledge that won't be here and that would make people like me forced to rely on Reddit.

That's why I said just get the content of those posts and just give credits to the OP without just copying a link to redirect people to Reddit.

In fact, I wouldn't want this to be filled with Reddit spam posts as most of them are useless.

I've been beating this drum since I got on here.

Here's the software you would need to put it in a special instance: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

I think there's value to it. There's a ton of really important and helpful documentation on there for all kinds of fields, in the past couple days I've noticed some references I've had for tech issues and guitar repair are no longer accessible, for example. There's going to be a period where looking for help/answers online for certain issues is going to be a nightmare.

Use what fediverse is good at. Make an instance where these bots reside and anyone who doesn't want them can just defederate.

You could dedicate a community to reddit reposts easy enough. If people want to see the stuff from reddit they can sub, if they would rather wash their hands of reddit they can ignore it or block it.

It'd be kind of nice to play catch up a bit with the, what, 18 years of content on Reddit

I know it might feel soulless, but having a constant stream of "pre-approved" content isn't the worst idea

Nah. If you see something interesting just post the direct link to it instead of going through reddit. Lemmy is a content aggregator after all.

I've been toying with this idea at well. I don't think it's a good idea to scrape all content. This could drown out the lemmy-original content, especially when large subreddits are concerned. Maybe an upvote threshold (Only scrape if more than X upvotes) would be a good idea.

I would also scrape only the post itself, not the comments. Best to have our own organic discussions here.

Finally it should be very clear that a bot is posting these things. Ideally the bot would also ensure it is not re-posting something that was already posted by a Lemmy users just a bit earlier.