Edit: It seems like there’s enough people that would prefer this didn’t happen for some pretty good reasons. For that reason, I’m not going to move forward with this idea.
I was thinking it’d be nice to have a bot pull top posts from Reddit, and repost them to their corresponding Lemmy analogs to help bolster the content available on Lemmy while it’s growing. I’m not sure if this kind of functionality would be desired by other users, or legal under Reddit ToS. I was thinking that if this was desired, it could be done for cheap under Reddit’s new API costs. An effort would also be made to prevent reposts as well. I would definitely like to hear everyone’s opinions on this.
I don’t love the idea, although I understand why it might seem like a good one.
I left Reddit because of the decisions they made. I’m sure plenty of the people here did the same. We didn’t like Reddit, so let’s do something different, rather than just trying to make Reddit again here.
New content, new community, new infrastructure - a different setup might lead to a different, hopefully better, outcome!
Just my opinion though, and I do totally understand why more content would be a good idea!
