So I really am happy with Lemmy and a new refugee from that site. I’m also a software developer and am curious about using Lemmy to unify my own information consumption into one app possibly. I’m curious about the landmines or community issues surrounding pumping information from active websites into communities in Lemmy? Like in theory I could write a bot to post things from hacker news or slashdot or a discourse forum or a subreddit or RSS feed, and create a community and pump both the items and comment threads into a federatable instance?
Would that get the hosting entity in hot water? Would people be annoyed by bot traffic or comments that can’t easily go two ways? What if I just released a tool for people to do it privately? It seems that matrix does similar things pumping data between proxies to other networks and I was curious about people’s thoughts.
With all due respect, fuck that.
I block every bot I see. If I just wanted an endless stream of mindless “content,” I’d be on Reddit.
Well you don’t have to subscribe if you don’t like it
Lemmy doesn’t need “content” it needs people willing to have conversations with each other
There is already a lemmy instance which seems to purely contain bot-reposted content from reddit. It is an awful, soulless place.
Have a look at lemmit.online for someone doing something similar for Reddit content.
Also make sure your bot self-identifies as a bot, so that those who don’t want to see any bots can avoid it.
Make sure you enable the “Bot Account” option in Settings:
This seems reasonable to me, especially if it is personal use only. You make your own little area (subreddit? What do we call them now?) And have your bot post there. The odds of anybody else seeing it seem pretty low as nobody would even k ow about it but you and maybe the people running your instance.
There is already a lemmy instance which seems to purely contain bot-reposted content from reddit. It is an awful, soulless place.
