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.

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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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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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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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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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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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