Asklemmy

Nah. This is a fresh start. It's been less than a week and theres already so much more content. It'll grow soon enough. Especially with spez fucking around over there. We want og content here, not all the shit reposts that already plague reddit

I think it’s like breaking up with someone and then dedicating yourself to building a weird, soulless android version of your ex.

If I wanted to lurk Reddit, I would just do that. Better to stay your separate thing. It is nice to sometimes get news about the other side of the fence.

Please don't do this.

I would rather have content posted by humans. Lemmy doesn't need to be reddit anyway.

I've been beating this drum since I got on here.

Here's the software you would need to put it in a special instance: https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

Absolutely don't. Lemmy is ran by volunteers for the people. It doesn't have corporate backing. You would be filling it with content it doesn't need and most likely cannot handle.

I think the community is much more important than just having more content. I would worry that by flooding Lemmy with Reddit's content without the community to support that content could drown everyone out.

Thoughts: Content is good atm. If it's spammy it'll get blocked. Or the instance de-federated. Is going to Reddit boosting reddit or draining it by using the content. Reddit has a lot of bad content that Lemmy is free of.

Bots in general suck.

But if you as a human want to sift and repost reddit content, please do.

I say keep it distinct.

Reddit has had its day.

Use what fediverse is good at. Make an instance where these bots reside and anyone who doesn't want them can just defederate.

I think reposting content from reddit is fine, but we don't need a bot for it. I'd rather see individuals bring over specific posts they think are notable as opposed to automatically copying everything they've got.

Nah. If you see something interesting just post the direct link to it instead of going through reddit. Lemmy is a content aggregator after all.

eh, maybe wait until 0.18 rolls out across the fediverse before scraping reddit for content

In general, I really do not like this idea. Lemmy is Lemmy and should not, directly or indirectly, turn into Reddit.

If you wanna write code to do this ... I'd say skip the bot, write a gateway instead.

Back in the early days of email, there were lots of different email systems, not just the SMTP Internet email we use today. There was UUCP email with "bang paths", where your email address specified a list of servers that a message could be passed through to get to you. There were other networks like FidoNet and WWIVnet, that could send email to Internet email addresses through special "gateway" servers.

A gateway receives messages using one protocol or service, and retransmits or makes them available on another protocol or service.

For a little while in 1992, I had access to read Usenet posts only through a gateway that exported Usenet posts onto the Gopher system.

A gateway between Reddit and Lemmy would appear to Reddit as a web browser, scraping posts and comments; while appearing to Lemmy as a Lemmy instance that users could subscribe to, making each subreddit it scrapes available as a Lemmy community.

So a Lemmy user could subscribe to, say, !askreddit@reddittolemmy.com and see a fresh view of AskReddit. The server at reddittolemmy.com would not be a standard Lemmy server with users, but rather a custom gateway server that fetches data from Reddit and makes it available in the form of a Lemmy community.

(If Reddit were not being an asshole, a gateway could be an API client. But Reddit is being an asshole, so a gateway should probably be written as a scraper that accesses Reddit as if it were a normal user using a desktop Web browser.)

As Reddit turns into a trash, the moderation and content quality will drop. Import the content may seem interesting at first, but in the long run it won't worth the effort.

It'd be kind of nice to play catch up a bit with the, what, 18 years of content on Reddit

I know it might feel soulless, but having a constant stream of "pre-approved" content isn't the worst idea

I think many would be more interested in a migration tool. A way of porting a subreddit's worth of content to lemmy and start off strong, as well as preserve what might be several subreddits getting nuked as damage control.

I think there's value to it. There's a ton of really important and helpful documentation on there for all kinds of fields, in the past couple days I've noticed some references I've had for tech issues and guitar repair are no longer accessible, for example. There's going to be a period where looking for help/answers online for certain issues is going to be a nightmare.

I've been toying with this idea at well. I don't think it's a good idea to scrape all content. This could drown out the lemmy-original content, especially when large subreddits are concerned. Maybe an upvote threshold (Only scrape if more than X upvotes) would be a good idea.

I would also scrape only the post itself, not the comments. Best to have our own organic discussions here.

Finally it should be very clear that a bot is posting these things. Ideally the bot would also ensure it is not re-posting something that was already posted by a Lemmy users just a bit earlier.