Pretty sure this is not legal
Fediverser: bring content and users from legacy social media networks into the fediverse
Submitted 1 year ago by rglullis@communick.news to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser
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mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
sirfancy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Questionable legality aside, who wants this? I thought we created these federated platforms to get away from all that garbage. The last thing I want is more bots spamming content here (not to mention a lot of the content on the sites it’d be pulling from are spam/bot content in the first place).
lily33@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Anyone who still has to regularly visit Reddit because of all the niche subreddits that have great communities there but 1 post per month here.
Ignacio@kbin.social 1 year ago
I agree that bots shouldn't spam content, but help people on command, like the TL;DR bot. But why was Reddit garbage? Was it for its bots, or was it for its toxic environment? Because, in my own opinion and experience, bots weren't a big deal over there. Instead, who was the brave enough person able to comment and face all kind of shit just because his/her comment?
Don't ignore the whole garbage hiding under the carpet half of it and expose the other half to the people claiming "I don't want this filth."
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
This is less about the people who are already here (though it can be helpful to them as well) and more about the people who are still there because they claim they stick to reddit because they can’t find their content here.
The last thing I want is more bots spamming content here.
What is “here”? This system works by making a mapping between subreddits and specific lemmy communities. So if I am running this tool and all I want to mirror the content of /r/python into !python@programming.dev, this all it’s going to do. I hope that no one will be trying to run this with the largest subreddits, because if they went on to do it would be inviting themselves to be blocked/defederated.
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
- Not that different from services like bird.makeup (which mirrors data from twitter)
- It’s up to the people running the service.
- It’s virtually impossible to enforce. The more people using this, the harder it will be to stop it.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s virtually impossible to prevent people from doing it, yes. It’s extremely easy to punish people who are doing it. Do you know what charges Aaron Swartz was facing, and what he was aiming to do that got him those charges?
PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com 1 year ago
Wonder what else their doing
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The use of “legacy” here is curious? Is the implication Reddit is “legacy”?
If that’s the intent, this comes across as phony as Microsoft stamping “Modern” on all their bullshit lately.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d rather not having more targeted advertising crawling through my Mastodon
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Oh great, more reddit bots.
Look, Tiktok didn’t beat the accusatiob of being a shitter version of Vine by copypasting content from Vine. They copied the ideas and put a new spin on it. Lemmy communities have to learn from Reddit, and Digg, and 4chan, and all the mistakes that came with the implementation of these technologies.
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
This is not to try to improve the “product”, this is just a set of tools to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem and eventually give an easy way for people to migrate away from Reddit.
One of the things that I am hoping to add soon is a keybase-style system to authenticate users on reddit by sending a DM with a secret. This would let any user to take control of their “mirror bot” and effectively give them an account on the fediverse with the communities and content they already are used to follow.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Your goals are beyond my understanding.