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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

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.

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[-] an_old_redditor@lemmy.g97.top 7 points 1 year ago

Does lemmit.online support NSFW communities and subreddits?

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

I guess yes. Even if it doesn't, supporting ones will show up soon probably.

[-] data_currator@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Even as NSFW subs become unavailable via API at the end of the month?

[-] wankbank@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

If it's got its own API key, it'll probably stay under the limits, and if not there's other ways like RSS/Atom or web scraping.

[-] C9H18O@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

I believe lemmit.online scrapes subreddits using RSS feeds, so it will likely continue to work until Reddit does away with RSS feeds.

this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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