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Bot that will "repost" reddit content to kbin/fediverse? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by yungsinatra@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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I've been thinking about this today..

If there's a divide among people who want to still use Reddit and others who want to try out the Fediverse (Kbin, Lemmy, etc), I believe it may be a good idea if we had a bot that could mimic at least the posts (and maybe later even the comments) on subreddits that people are missing out here in the Fediverse. This can at least help populate the emptier communities that are here on the Fediverse and incentivize people to remain here without the fear of FOMO (myself included).

Is there any existing solution that could provide the necessary functionality? How feasible would this be if someone would start working on this now, considering the Reddit API changes?

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[–] NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Disregard the API completely and just scrape the web interface of specific subreddits. It really doesn't matter that things won't update in real time.

[–] yungsinatra@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Don't platforms like Facebook or Instagram have detection against web scraping and they ban you really fast for that or something similar? I'd imagine Reddit would have some protection against that as well, no?

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