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Should we clone reddit posts? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by doostee@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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From a technical and legal standpoint, ignoring ethics and dignity, is there anything preventing us from scripting a scraper that recreates reddit posts in a lemmy instance? Like maybe top 50 posts of the top 20 subreddits, without comments. I think it would help convince people to join, since the major argument for sticking with reddit is that it has more content. Thoughts?

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[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I personally find those scraped posts annoying in other communities. First the formatting looks ugly in the list view. Second it just feels awkward to even interact with such a post, especially if it's a question where the real content is in the comment section on reddit.

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