From a technical and legal standpoint, ignoring ethics and dignity, is there anything preventing us from scripting a scraper that recreates reddit posts in a lemmy instance? Like maybe top 50 posts of the top 20 subreddits, without comments. I think it would help convince people to join, since the major argument for sticking with reddit is that it has more content. Thoughts?

  • otter bee
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    11 year ago

    i dont think so, you’d get posts at the speed / scale of reddit, but the comments would still be subject to the small lemmy community