How tf sum of 69, 64, 33 can be 120?

Does lemmit.online support NSFW communities and subreddits?

If we leave the reposting to lemmit, people can easily opt out from it showing up on their All feeds by blocking the singular bot that does all the posts, whereas if we allow it here people would need to individually block each bot.

However, Lemmit only reposts Reddit, there is at least one bot here that reposts one of the rule34 boorus, and I'm sure other sites are to follow. Those seem to be the real issues here.

I would prefer it if bots only reposted approximately 10-40% of the content that receives the most votes.

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, the bot posting is limited.

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I have created a script that would take the top (user-selectable) 0-1000 posts of a subreddit and post them to a Lemmy community. My plan was then to implement a vote threshold so that posts older than 48 hours and above a user-defined karma limit would be pulled in each time it was run - however the account login no longer works so I assume it and its posts were purged, so I'm here instead!

I do think that in order to get people engaged, we need content to draw them in. I noticed that once I'd posted 50 items across I immediately started getting subscribers to the community.

What I don't think is right is using bots to just replicate all the content on Reddit. As a moderator of several subs, a lot of content gets removed through moderation (hence the 48 hour limit), and a lot of junk gets through but just doesn't get upvoted (resulting in the karma threshold). Avoiding the "rubbish" would be good.

My view is that using bots/scripts to seed communities means we can kick start them into life much more quickly, and then when a critical mass of users is reached they become irrelevant and can be disabled. I don't think we're here to just copy and paste from Reddit - otherwise surely you'd just go there instead.

from a 'get as much content as possible' angle bots are good but i think there's a big risk of them drowning out actual posters which really takes away a lot of the fun of posting and making it feel like an archive rather than an active community.

The issue I have is various communities on reddit are disrupting that platform ( with good reason ) . We could end up mirror a bunch of just crap if that happens with one of the communities we are mirroring. We would then be using up server resources to host garbage. It might just be better to sub to those communities that are mirroring.

I think that would be super beneficial to help jumpstart this site. Maybe at some point communities can do it the other way around, so that the „main“ branch of the community is on lemmy and can port over the follower of reddit

If something like that should be allowed, I think it should be marked with a tag/flag/flair (if that's a thing on Lemmy) so that you can easily filter them out if you want to.

I am voting a no, and have been blocking bots whenever I see them.

I understand trying to jumpstart communities, however I feel bots should be limited to 1 post every 6-12 hours if allowed at all. And honestly, I think bots reduce the quality of a community regardless, especially if you are basing it off metrics on Reddit, where the top posts in many subreddits aren't necessarily the the nicest pictures, just the ones with the most professional setup and money to burn on bots upvoting them for exposure.

I voted no, although I nearly voted for the "only in certain comms" option. I've got the beginnings of a tool that will make it easy for people to select content from the reddit backups, but I didn't intend to make it automatic, just something that helped people find content.

I voted no. My biggest concern is that Reddit's legal team would try to take the instance down and then we would have to start all over on a different instance.

I vote no, subscribing would be better

I think we should not have them or else Lemmy will only be known as the platform that copies from others. Also there could be legal issues when the platform the content is copied from has an ill-minded CEO who wants to shutdown others.

i vote no

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I feel a little yes, but mostly no. I'd LOVE a bot that'd scrape r/SpaceX content for example, because I want to be cold turkey on reddit, but I miss that community so much. But ultimately it's counter productive to organic growth.

I think content import should be a thing across Lemmy, most users moving over have tons of content they've posted on Reddit, and having an easy way to bring that here would be great. But Lemmy isn't really built to handle bulk imports yet, if you simply hit the API of your instance it will flood /New on every instance that's indexed whatever sublemmy is being imported, and it will severely disrupt the use of the sub for a while. If content could be backfilled directly to the database with earlier timestamps it could be done smoothly, though.

I the past few days have been working on a quick c# app to simply pull the last 24 hour posts on a subreddit, and allow me to click a button to upload them individually here to kickstart a community to replace the subreddit. I think like what alot of people are saying these tools can help seed communities and boost engagement. i think in the long term we should start to block these tools, but i dont think the time is yet. This is still a new group, and while some communities on this instance are sizable, others are way to small to be sustainable yet :/

Also If we could hopefully prevent the massive amount of content on reddit from disapearing, and give a place to preserve that that would definitly be amazing. although thats easy for me to say as the one who isnt hosting the files :/ (although for some communities the actual data for that isnt that significant, and since lemmy doesnt support galleries yet, galleries are still hosted offsite)

Anyway thanks so much for the work you all are doing, I appreciate that you all went out of your way to enable communities and users to migrate off of reddit and hopefully to help form a better platform.

Sorry i wanted to add one more thing: it would be really nice if there was a way to do this without flooding new... as i think the people doing this dont really want to impact other communities

Categorically no. The point of lemmy isn't to be a content farm. It's to be a community where people respect each other. How can you respect anything or anyone while stealing content?

In fact I would go the other way and start banning people that are posting content they don't explicitly have permission to post. In this day and age where more people are seeking to monetize sharing nudes, we need to protect the few free content creators we have left, whether on this platform or the former one.

Fuck people and bots that steal nudes.