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Is it illegal/poor taste to port content from Reddit over to Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by taigaman@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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Edit: It seems like there's enough people that would prefer this didn't happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I'm not going to move forward with this idea.

I was thinking it'd be nice to have a bot pull top posts from Reddit, and repost them to their corresponding Lemmy analogs to help bolster the content available on Lemmy while it's growing. I'm not sure if this kind of functionality would be desired by other users, or legal under Reddit ToS. I was thinking that if this was desired, it could be done for cheap under Reddit's new API costs. An effort would also be made to prevent reposts as well. I would definitely like to hear everyone's opinions on this.

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[–] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Personally I don’t like the idea.

I honestly think Lemmy should not just be a clone of Reddit (either in terms of trying to match functionality exactly or filling it up with content from Reddit).

I get where you’re coming from in terms of trying to bolster the amount of content but truly I think Lemmy will do just fine with original content.

Apart from anything else, imho the quality of posts here on Lemmy that I’ve seen so far are, generally, quite good. Reddit seems to have been going downhill and I wouldn’t be surprised if the quality on Reddit gets worse following the current issues.

As someone else mentioned, maybe an instance or community could host that content but I think it would be important that users would be able to block it if they don’t want to see it.