Should we clone reddit posts?
Should we clone reddit posts?
From a technical and legal standpoint, ignoring ethics and dignity, is there anything preventing us from scripting a scraper that recreates reddit posts in a lemmy instance? Like maybe top 50 posts of the top 20 subreddits, without comments. I think it would help convince people to join, since the major argument for sticking with reddit is that it has more content. Thoughts?
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There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/... .
I don't want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.Hopefully the community will grow naturally to a point where it can satisfy my doom-scrolling addiction.
Seems like the subscript markdown doesn't work on Jerboa yet.
Apologies to anyone bothered by the tildes. 🙇testLike this
~~test~~Edit: You said subscript not stikethrough 🤦