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.

  • Das Alt@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    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
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      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