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.

  • Doctor8@infosec.pubEnglish
    85·
    1 year ago

    On grounds of NSFW communities, we have to get the bots. People don’t come to this page to look at 14 posts on each board. They come to them for the same reason they come to the reddit versions of these subs.

    Aren’t we trying to compete here? Aren’t we trying to show the refugees a good time? We ought bot.