this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Bots of this type have appeared recently, and people are asking if it's okay to use them. I'm not sure about this either, so I think it would make sense to ask users.

These bots follow some subreddits on Reddit and automatically post it to Lemmy when a post is created there.

I've seen an example site for it: lemmit.online. This instance is dedicated solely to mirroring Reddit posts to the Lemmy instance.

Maybe instead of mirroring to a community on Lemmy NSFW, we can subscribe to lemmit.online via Lemmy NSFW. This way we could have kept Lemmy NSFW free of bots. Currently, even if accepted, I believe it should be done under admin control to prevent duplicates.

Here is the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRw82byN

I'm open to suggestions.

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[–] bobbiguy2122@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As others have said, I think it makes sense to have the top 40% of posts of all time, or something like that, reposted. As a mod for several subs here, those bots would help a lot when seeding content, and could even help me crank out posts of new, relevant content in the future.

I don't think it's unreasonable for the amount of posts a bot can make a day to be limited. Or maybe a time frame that we allow content migration en mass like x date to x date, theb bot posting is limited.