Python isn’t a language I am deeply familiar with.

I am more interested in Lemmy growing on its own, in a different direction than reddit - rather than trying to copy reddit and its features (and problems).

This looks like it is going to run smack into TOS problems. You can claim that its going to be playing whackamole with instances, if it is sufficiently problematic then lawyers can get involved.

Creating these copies of reddit content makes Lemmy look like a ghost town. Copying content from people who didn’t consent to having their content pushed onto the Fediverse and federated across multiple instances (how would you handle a GDPR request?) leads to other problems.

I’m not worried at all about the implementation. I believe that its goal and means are flawed and counterproductive to the growth of the Fediverse as its own thing rather than a making Lemmy hollow budding of Reddit.

People point to early Reddit and say “see all the bots and fake accounts that were created early on? That’s a bad thing - we’re better than that.” (How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts)

This project is copying a reddit in content and culture.