could we mirror reddit?
What's stopping us from using the api to post all of reddit here in a massive one-time merger?
Obviously the Lemmy devs would have to do it, but would there be legal issues? I think it would solve most of the problems with Lemmy, really.
Exactly. I feel like this is one of those instances of "We're spending time thinking about whether or not we could, when we should be thinking about whether or not we should."
There are servers that do this. You get a whole bunch of mostly terrible content (with not votes to rise good stuff to the top) and no way to interact with the original poster or commenters. It's not great.
If you see a thread on Reddit that you are interested in, consider making a similar one here.
I don't want a reddit 2.0, I want what lemmy may become on its own.
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95% of reddit is garbage. If you could bring just the 5% of stuff that is useful, sure. Otherwise we're just duplicating the problem.
For links only that's possible. And one community i know have the top links from their reddit counterpart mirrored here even partly automated.
For any kind of media and even text that would infringe the copyright of the author. And could put the instance in risk of legal action.
Therefore i see much more potential in getting the content creators and commenters here - just like it is happening already.
