Check out [email protected]. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.
Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you’ve seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.
You can make requests for subs to fetch at [email protected].
In the end we’re just using lemmy and lemmit’s bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.
Wouldn’t such automated crossposting result in some really spammy communities without actual people filtering them?
I think reddit can afford to have so many posts in these massive subs because they have a massive community that engages with the posts by up/down voting them.
This will happen. A lot of people did this initially in Mastodon, but it just resulted in feeds getting spammed by reposts from Twitter and drowning out actual posts. Most such users just ended up getting blocked, and others stopped reposting blindly on the fear of getting blocked. My mastodon feed looks so much better without those annoying reposts.
Ok, I really don’t get this.
Why are y’all so focused on basically moving Reddit onto the Fediverse when you can just, y’know, either make new content that you want to see on the Fediverse… or just go back to using Reddit? Dunno about you guys, but I got away from Reddit because I don’t want the Fediverse to become Reddit 2.0 in terms of content and community - I was kind of hoping more for Fediverse communities and content, not Reddit communities and content on the Fediverse. If I wanted that, I’d go on Reddit.
