Hello! I wrote a simple bot that periodically checks for new reddit posts and posts them to lemmy, so that people migrating from reddit to lemmy can still be able to see their favourite posts, but familiarizing with lemmy.
currently the coments are not synced, but this may change in the future (perhaps)
Yes, it uses the Reddit API, so it will stop working on the 1st of July, but I think that then I can implement a sort of web scraper to access Reddit posts without the official API, so this may eventually keep working for a while.
this script is currently on my laptop so it will be offline most of the time, but if I get the approval I may host it somewhere to get it running 24h/24.
now the question... Is this allowed? having this bot running 24h/24 on large subreddits will mean a very high quantity of posts. will this cause any problem to Lemmy?
if you want a preview check out https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes, where I started syncing a few posts from r/memes
let me know your opinion on this!
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EDIT
here's the bot source code
The bot is now running in https://sh.itjust.works/c/reddit_memes, let's try to see if it work (I hope that shit just works)
I'm a bit concerned about the legality of this, if anyone has any info please tell me!
Not an opinion, but a question - would syncing content from Reddit potentially overwhelm both Lemmy's servers and its organic content? If posts madenon Lemmy are mixed in with the tidal wave of Reddit material, might that put people off posting on Lemmy at all? Possibly not, just wondering.
I wondered this a bit too and share your concerns. On one hand I like the idea of populating Lemmy with more content, particularly for niche communities, but there's also a good amount of unique posts here that might get drowned out.
Maybe create a specific community that aggregates all the syncs so it doesn’t drown out the original content from lemmy, dunno not the best idea from me but I am slightly concerned if it just ends up a Reddit clone post for post
This is my question as well, I have no idea
Something something too much time wondering if they could and not if they should... ;-)