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.

  • @HappycamperNZ
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    2 years ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      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