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lemmy-reddit compatibility layer (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by yinonl@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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so i was thinking, sure reddit is killing of it's api but that doesn't stop people from emulating reddit, and scraping it

wouldn't a good compromise for people who still want the content of reddit, which are mainly the lurkers who don't need to interact anyways, wouldn't it be nice to have a sort of activitypub reddit proxy which enables you to see reddit posts on your lemmy client? sure it might be in a little legal gray zone, but who are they gonna sue haha if revanced is still legal because you compile it yourself, I'm sure it'll be easy enough to find a way for this to be legal as well

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[–] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 1 points 1 year ago

If scraping is against their terms of service (and it probably is), then it doesn't seem like much of a legal gray zone to me. I think they would sue the people running the scrapers.

I used to work for a company that was constantly fighting scrapers. They loved our data! I have no idea how successful the bad guys were at doing it, but there were ways we could slow it down, block it, etc. Also, if you spend enough money with your CDN, there are lots of ways to deal with bots and scrapers. None of it is 100% effective, but you can sure make it a pain in the ass for your casual Lemmy admin.

I say we make our own content here, instead of pulling it from Reddit.