What kind of payment options do you provide? All the managed Lemmy instances I've found so far seem to be credit card (or crypto) only, which would be a hassle for me. In The Netherlands, iDEAL is used for most online transactions, and can be easily set up through through Stripe for example.
Either way, this is a great development, kudos to you! :)
Ha! I have been working on the same thing this weekend, except it uses the rss feed for posts and scrapes old.reddit.com for the details. It's written in python, but not quite finished - scraping works, automation not yet.
My plan was to have a separate Lemmy instance for this, where people can also request for new subs to be included. This would reduce the spam in bigger communities, and allow instances to block it all together if they wanted to.
Beside that, I'd pre- or postfix each post with a message it's a copy and a link to the original for copyright reasons. Moderation would be a separate story - Not particularly looking forward to that. Could make it so that if a post were flagged, it would re-aync with the original. Let reddit do the moderation :D
especially because lemmings don't actually walk off cliffs, that's anti-lemming propaganda
Me, personally, would only do that if I were pushed by a Disney producer. (true story)
I fully understand and respect that, and would never run it on an instance that wasn't specifically set up for this purpose.
The intention is for it to be something people can OPT IN to, not OPT OUT of.
I'm more of a backender myself, but I think some UX mockup would go a long way in getting this improved.