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?

  • liori
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    1 year ago

    At such scale, a scraper wouldn’t be necessary, that’s easily doable by humans involved in these communities—with a human touch as well.