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POLL: Should we allow content migration bots?
(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.
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, theb bot posting is limited.