• cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Idk if it’s possible, but if someone with the resources to make a bot that slowly clone reddit posts to Lemmy, so instead of searching for “something + Reddit” we could search for “something + Lemmy”, that would be the end of Reddit, at least for me.

    I’m 100% on lemmy now, but occasionally when i need to troubleshoot my PC I still have to search on Google for Reddit posts and I hate myself for giving reddit traffic.

    I miss the 2 dozens Cat Subs that flooded my feed with Cat memes and funny cat pics everyday. If anyone knows about any cat subs on Lemmy please reply here.

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      1 year ago

      I am working on a bot that clones posts from reddit to lemmy It’s for a community that wants to have a backup on lemmy in case reddit goes to complete shit But wouldn’t we this way end up with a lemmy that is full of shit from reddit?

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        1 year ago

        Ehhhh there’s pros and cons to that. r/all on any given day is just bots karma farming off eachother with maybe 1 or 2 good posts mixed in alongside the occasionally genuinely interesting news article, which obviously sucks.

        But on the other side there is a TON of threads from the past decade that I know I still read once in a while and I’m sure others do too. Hell just yesterday I was looking for some info on mettalurgy and found a reddit thread where some guy asked my exact question and got good answers like 5 years ago. Having those be more accessible would be great… Plus a lot of niche communities are unfortunately just too small on Lemmy to produce the level of content they do on Reddit

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      1 year ago

      This can be done by periodically scraping a subreddit. I have a working script that can do this for a subreddit that I follow. There’s a few more things that I need to do before I can open source it