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?

  • U+1F914 🤔@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/… .
    I don’t want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
    Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.

    Hopefully the community will grow naturally to a point where it can satisfy my doom-scrolling addiction.