could we mirror reddit?

What's stopping us from using the api to post all of reddit here in a massive one-time merger?

Obviously the Lemmy devs would have to do it, but would there be legal issues? I think it would solve most of the problems with Lemmy, really.

jjjm182 42 points 3 years ago

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GuyDudeman 16 points 3 years ago

Exactly. I feel like this is one of those instances of "We're spending time thinking about whether or not we could, when we should be thinking about whether or not we should."

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Communist 3 points 3 years ago

Alternatively, we could have the bot just post all the posts, but not the comments

That would save a shitload of space too.

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Spacebar 22 points 3 years ago

If you see a thread on Reddit that you are interested in, consider making a similar one here.

I don't want a reddit 2.0, I want what lemmy may become on its own.

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borlax 13 points 3 years ago

I think the main thing stopping that is that that's not what many people want. I know personally I wasn't looking to recreate Reddit, as much I am just looking for a new link aggregator and to build a new community around it.

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7heo 7 points 3 years ago

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animist 3 points 3 years ago

Is your domain name no.lemmit

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7heo 2 points 3 years ago

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animist 2 points 3 years ago

Oh snap that's actually cool. Might get one like one of those for my instance when I start it

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Communist 1 point 3 years ago

What if we did it JUST ONCE?

We just need the content that's already on there to massively improve things, we don't need a computer constantly running updating the content, we really just need it over here once to match reddit, then we can replace it.

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7heo 4 points 3 years ago

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Communist 1 point 3 years ago

Idea, don't include the comments so that lemmy can still be organic and separate, this would also cut down the amount of scraping we'd need to do dramatically.

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7heo 3 points 3 years ago

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Metallinatus 7 points 3 years ago

I mean, I see no problem with someone creating an instance specifically for this, it would even be good for archival purposes. But doing it here? Hell naw, I don't want r/conservative or whatever other the_donald-like hellholes Reddit still has, polluting Lemmy.

There is also the problem with "gone wild" style subs, where the users posts their own explicit pictures, but that doesn't mean they want those pictures reposted elsewhere without their control.

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buxtonwater 1 point 3 years ago

There is also the problem with “gone wild” style subs, where the users posts their own explicit pictures, but that doesn’t mean they want those pictures reposted elsewhere without their control.

That does unfortunately come with the territory of posting anything on the internet though, especially explicit material.

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Bishma 4 points 3 years ago

There are servers that do this. You get a whole bunch of mostly terrible content (with not votes to rise good stuff to the top) and no way to interact with the original poster or commenters. It's not great.

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really_new_user 4 points 3 years ago

i think it need a lot of storage, and considering that pushshift is dead idk think it will be possible to do it at all

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Communist 1 point 3 years ago

I'd be willing to donate money to such a project. How much storage could it really take, it's almost all text, the images are usually hyperlinks that could stay links.

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really_new_user 2 points 3 years ago

How much storage could it really take

that's the thing we don't know , sites like unddit used pushshift to archive reddit posts , vomments, etc, and its dead so these websites are effectively dead, so i don't think we can do it here.

the images are usually hyperlinks that could stay links.

and imgur started purging old images, where most reddit images are hosted.

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skullgiver 3 points 3 years ago

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bridger 3 points 3 years ago

95% of reddit is garbage. If you could bring just the 5% of stuff that is useful, sure. Otherwise we're just duplicating the problem.

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7eter 2 points 3 years ago

For links only that's possible. And one community i know have the top links from their reddit counterpart mirrored here even partly automated.

For any kind of media and even text that would infringe the copyright of the author. And could put the instance in risk of legal action.

Therefore i see much more potential in getting the content creators and commenters here - just like it is happening already.

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Communist 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it should definitely be done by a community, that would absolutely make things make sense, we need a bot that automatically scrapes and posts.

The biggest thing stopping people from using lemmy seems to be content missing, if we can overcome that we'd change the game.

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7heo 6 points 3 years ago

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Communist 1 point 3 years ago

I think what would be best is just doing it once, so that we can access all the content, but we move forward as a separate website, what do you think of that?

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7heo 4 points 3 years ago

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Die4Ever 1 point 3 years ago

well there is this https://lemmy.one/post/55177

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