Cult of the lamb was such a solid game, although this would certainly make it better
I'm responding to weather there is a risk of reddit sueing not the individual creator creating a take down request.
If an individual creator got a bee in their bonnet and decided they were OK having their posts on one forum but not the other they could request it be taken down, but reddit themselves couldn't. I think overall since we are pulling from a free non gated site that's a minimal issue, as people like only fans creators are using this explicitly to show people free content to get them to go to their paid content. It would be like them getting mad you reposted or shared their original post
Honestly I think that's some botters being a bit lazy... like anyone whose been in these communities should know that all imgur links are dead now, there should just be a line exlucing those from their pool of links to pull from
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
Someone else here had a smarter idea honestly of haveing a 48 hour buffer and using the reddit apis up vote ratio, and total karma to filter out alot of the spam. Honestly when I built this I had missed that part of the api, so I'm probably going to rework it in a bit
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
from a legal standpoint I can't see how there is, reddit doesn't own any of the content it serves. it's terms of service do require they give the right for them to display it, but not ownership of the content
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 (I just realized this is an issue, as i started porting content before realizing)
One way we could try to minimize impact ( which is what im going to do for now) is ask anyone porting content to do it in off hours (like midnight EST would cover all of US and most of europe ?)
For setup communities i agree, but for communities with few people right now it can be a very large undertaking to keep them alive manually, and the boost of content can really help growth for migrating communities
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.
And people say you need to be taller than your man to do this.