Bots of this type have appeared recently, and people are asking if it’s okay to use them. I’m not sure about this either, so I think it would make sense to ask users.

These bots follow some subreddits on Reddit and automatically post it to Lemmy when a post is created there.

I’ve seen an example site for it: lemmit.online. This instance is dedicated solely to mirroring Reddit posts to the Lemmy instance.

Maybe instead of mirroring to a community on Lemmy NSFW, we can subscribe to lemmit.online via Lemmy NSFW. This way we could have kept Lemmy NSFW free of bots. Currently, even if accepted, I believe it should be done under admin control to prevent duplicates.

Here is the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRw82byN

I’m open to suggestions.

  • fungi2bwith@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    The issue I have is various communities on reddit are disrupting that platform ( with good reason ) . We could end up mirror a bunch of just crap if that happens with one of the communities we are mirroring. We would then be using up server resources to host garbage. It might just be better to sub to those communities that are mirroring.

    • Das Alt@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m seeing a lot of bots archiving imgur links, too. The content was removed ages ago, it’s just a dead link.

      • Padded Person@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Honestly I think that’s some botters being a bit lazy… like anyone whose been in these communities should know that all imgur links are dead now, there should just be a line exlucing those from their pool of links to pull from