Was just wondering if that was a reasonable and ethical way of growing Lemmy…

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not sure about that, it could end up being counterproductive, I mean, reddit is full of spam, if there’s no good antispam feature here you could ruin communities with a bot copying content.

    Not to mention that if someone on reddit realizes there are bots copying content, they could even spam the subs on purpose.

    I believe it would be better to do it manually, copying the source in case of links, not copying text post, that wouldn’t be honest IMO.

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        1 year ago

        I think a better way would be people curating amassed knowledge in a conscious way. Start building up sidebars/wikis from the previous interactions, rather than just importing posts full of “this” or “gold for you kind sir” wholesale.