Is it permissible to transfer the submissions from reddit to lemmy directly, to at least provide a seed to start conversations going?
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Is it permissible to transfer the submissions from reddit to lemmy directly, to at least provide a seed to start conversations going?
Theoretically yes, however... Say User A made a comment on Reddit but User A doesn't exist (yet) on Lemmy, do you then create a new user for that new user or do you attribute that comment to an "unknown user" ? And if so, what's the value than of that comment ? You cannot really interact with that comment other then 'it exists'. But you decide to create a user for that, how do you verify that that person can "migrate" or have access to that 'new user' ? Assuming they even want to migrate to Lemmy in the first place.
Not to mention the fact, that it's probably a GDPR violation to reupload that comment somewhere.
I wasn't thinking about reuploading comments, just submissions. There are a lot of submissions that would be interesting to discuss here as separate conversations away from reddit. For example, Futurology, Science, Finance, and even Aww and Eyebleach have some nice things to discuss.
There are a ton of twitter bots that do exactly this already. I've seen a few mastodon bots do the same so I imagine it's possible with lemmy as well.
At worst, you could just set it up on mastodon and then have them automatically post to lemmy.
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I think you can make a bot to post an rss feed to mastodon (or something else in the fediverse?) And then subscribe to that with your lemme account to just have the content here!
There might be a way to make a community here that has automatic posts from the rss feed too?
Won't the rss feed contain only the individual post and no follow up in answer threads?
I started up a visual novels community on my server but would definitely like it if others could help share the burden once it gains some traction.
I was wondering, about your suggestion (and please, keep in mind I am not that intelligent when it comes to technology): when I access all the posts via my RSS reader, doesn't this still count as some kind of "visit" to Reddit's site? Shouldn't we just try to stay away from it as long and as good as possible?
Yes and no. Your RSS reader downloads it for you, you just view it. reddit no longer gets your "visit". You no longer see ads, either.
Thank you for explaining. Now I get it. I am new to RSS readers, but I love having all the info in one place so this has gotta be a really good solution!
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Thank you so much for this!
If you don't use RSS readers but do like email, blogtrottr.com is free and does RSS→email. You can set the frequency of the emails. Free accounts get ads in the emails, but it's inexpensive to go ad-free, which I do.
disclaimer: I get no benefit from sharing the site, just found it to be a handy tool…
Hmm, that's a good idea! I tried that, even with your museum-example, and it didn't work though.
Oh? Which reader did you try it* with? Because you should be able to view the link (https://www.reddit.com/r/museum.rss), even in your browser.
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Anyone know how sites like teddit.net will be affected? Apps like Stealth let you browse reddit with it set to teddit if you wanted.
@GhostMagician @cih @technology good work around for the short term. Eventually they will kill off everything but their first party app and web app.
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