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.

  • Th1ckAndCreamy@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    152·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Triple Underscore@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Reddit doesn’t own that content, individual posters do. They do grant Reddit a license to display it to others (in the terms of service nobody reads) but they are still the legal owners of their posts (assuming we’re talking about OC)

      • Fraeco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Even more reason to not simply mirror the content as the bot owner does not have permission from the content owner to post it here.

    • Th1ckAndCreamy@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      An instance dedicated for NSFW replication off Reddit could be a workaround. Then at least if Reddit tries to sue it wouldn’t effect this instance’s native content.

      • Padded Person@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The problem that I see with that, is that these bots are mostly being used for kickstarting/seeding communities that want to turn the bots off and become a full user active sub later. Essentially it’s a way to solve the chicken and egg problem of attracting users to generate content by having good content

          • Padded Person@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            it definitely is its own legal instance the people hosting the instances are responsible for the content served.

            that being said there isn’t any legal risk of reddit sueing with this as they dont own the conte t so it should be fine