Bots of this type have appeared recently, and people are asking if it’s okay to use them. I’m not sure about this either, so I think it would make sense to ask users.
These bots follow some subreddits on Reddit and automatically post it to Lemmy when a post is created there.
I’ve seen an example site for it: lemmit.online. This instance is dedicated solely to mirroring Reddit posts to the Lemmy instance.
Maybe instead of mirroring to a community on Lemmy NSFW, we can subscribe to lemmit.online via Lemmy NSFW. This way we could have kept Lemmy NSFW free of bots. Currently, even if accepted, I believe it should be done under admin control to prevent duplicates.
Here is the poll: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRw82byN
I’m open to suggestions.
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For what it’s worth, as the creator of lemmit.online, I totally understand people not wanting to see automated content bots. I, for one, wouldn’t want to see them mixed with regular content. That is why I made sure to put it on its own instance, and not allow any users - so there would be minimal harm if a server would decide to defederate.
And yes, NSFW content is allowed on my server :). For more answers, see this FAQ post. For more questions, please post them in that comment thread there.
Hi. Can you reach me via matrix? We can do a collaboration. My address is @xaeg:matrix.org
to moderate a community bots are helpfull and this would be great. There also should be a posting limit per hour / day so we don’t flood everything.
Automatic “sync” a subreddit to lemmy is okay, but depends on the content. There are enough user who don’t want to see their content on other platforms. And we don’t want to anger these user. Also mark / link the original poster would be great to appriciate him. Or ask if we can post the content here too or ask if they wanna join and post their stuff directly here
User will also follow the community with most posts. If there are 10 same communities on different lemmy instances I would also follow only the two most actives.
Absolutely yes, of course.
As for different communities, people who don’t want to see bots can disable them in the user settings, so the communities wouldn’t change for them. I don’t see the point in having bot communities.
I’m assuming you’re not thinking about the moderation side.
No, I assume that the bots would only repost the most highly voted content. If a bot were to post everything, including low-quality content, the moderators could simply ban it.
from a ‘get as much content as possible’ angle bots are good but i think there’s a big risk of them drowning out actual posters which really takes away a lot of the fun of posting and making it feel like an archive rather than an active community.
If something like that should be allowed, I think it should be marked with a tag/flag/flair (if that’s a thing on Lemmy) so that you can easily filter them out if you want to.
On grounds of NSFW communities, we have to get the bots. People don’t come to this page to look at 14 posts on each board. They come to them for the same reason they come to the reddit versions of these subs.
Aren’t we trying to compete here? Aren’t we trying to show the refugees a good time? We ought bot.
The issue I have is various communities on reddit are disrupting that platform ( with good reason ) . We could end up mirror a bunch of just crap if that happens with one of the communities we are mirroring. We would then be using up server resources to host garbage. It might just be better to sub to those communities that are mirroring.
I voted no. My biggest concern is that Reddit’s legal team would try to take the instance down and then we would have to start all over on a different instance.
An instance dedicated for NSFW replication off Reddit could be a workaround. Then at least if Reddit tries to sue it wouldn’t effect this instance’s native content.
It is not as if an instance is a legally distinct entity.
Are they really not? Distinct from what?
As for having the bots in another instance, people are going to go to the instance with the most content, and that would be the bot instance. Do we really want to drive the users away?
Does lemmit.online support NSFW communities and subreddits?
I guess yes. Even if it doesn’t, supporting ones will show up soon probably.
Even as NSFW subs become unavailable via API at the end of the month?
People will just swap API usage with web scraping.
Categorically no. The point of lemmy isn’t to be a content farm. It’s to be a community where people respect each other. How can you respect anything or anyone while stealing content?
In fact I would go the other way and start banning people that are posting content they don’t explicitly have permission to post. In this day and age where more people are seeking to monetize sharing nudes, we need to protect the few free content creators we have left, whether on this platform or the former one.
Fuck people and bots that steal nudes.
That’s a fair point but what about artwork? For example hentai. Are we really expecting only OC content to appear on Lemmy? I don’t think that’s realistic at all…
I would argue that we’re no more entitled to post people’s hentai artwork as we are their nudes. More so in fact, it can take days to create hentai, only for it to be posted here with no mechanism for the original author to request it taken down.
If people really want to see other people’s hentai posted here, why not link to it? I’m pretty sure the original authors would appreciate that. Plus if they see Lemmy generating traffic, maybe they’ll join up and post stuff here directly.
That’s what sourcing content is for. All the communities I moderate require sources when possible, and proof of best effort when not.
Your suggestion would make hentai communities all but impossible for the exact reasons you already stated.
Linking only to an art page would make the communities functionally useless. People don’t come to follow a million links, open a hundred web pages, and sign up for a dozen services in hopes of seeing something they like, they come to see the content, same as in any IRL content community.
Nude photos are cheap and easy to produce, so those communities would never be starved for content, but a hentai community that only allows direct images if they’re OC would be dead on arrival.
I don’t agree that a bot would steal content. Content creators need exposure and they post for free on Reddit, so why wouldn’t they want the same here?
I’m trying to make an account on this instance, been trying for days now but it never works, has anyone been able to create an account? It just forever spins after pressing sign up. I’ve tried on multiple devices and browsers, same deal.
There should be a captcha. Check is it there. Also filling by password manager is not working for me. Try writing by hand. Be sure your password is strong enough also.
There could be many errors. We can’t know because Lemmy server doesn’t returns those. Hopefully these errors will be fixed in new version.
Passwort manager worked after the third try. But I noticed that not ticking the show nsfw worked.
You can change it later
Good to know it worked for you. Welcome!
I think it’s scummy to rip off other peoples content so your site has more content. It also invites legal copyright issues. Strongly against.
Right now it’s not even possible to let you guys know of a copyright violation. Like at least an email address… regardless of botted content you really should look out for that.
