Please don’t do this.

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

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

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 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’m not entirely against the idea, but also really don’t want to turn the fediverse into the flood of content that is reddit. Maybe some kind of relative upvote filter based bot. Only posts that get some certain percentage of above average number for a given sub, get scraped.

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.

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.

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 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.

(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.)

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

You could dedicate a community to reddit reposts easy enough. If people want to see the stuff from reddit they can sub, if they would rather wash their hands of reddit they can ignore it or block it.

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.

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.

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