Edit: It seems like there’s enough people that would prefer this didn’t happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I’m not going to move forward with this idea.

I was thinking it’d be nice to have a bot pull top posts from Reddit, and repost them to their corresponding Lemmy analogs to help bolster the content available on Lemmy while it’s growing. I’m not sure if this kind of functionality would be desired by other users, or legal under Reddit ToS. I was thinking that if this was desired, it could be done for cheap under Reddit’s new API costs. An effort would also be made to prevent reposts as well. I would definitely like to hear everyone’s opinions on this.

  • @danc4498English
    14•1 year ago

    Reddit didnt create any of its content. WE did. So, ethically, I see no problem.

    I know their API has rules against doing stuff like that. So you may get your API key blocked if you did it.

    Also, for a long time I had a ITTT bot copying the top videos content to a Google sheets doc. I only did it for science, but it ran until they stopped supporting that.