From a technical and legal standpoint, ignoring ethics and dignity, is there anything preventing us from scripting a scraper that recreates reddit posts in a lemmy instance? Like maybe top 50 posts of the top 20 subreddits, without comments. I think it would help convince people to join, since the major argument for sticking with reddit is that it has more content. Thoughts?
That already exists. I personally think we should just continue where most of us left off on Reddit and don’t bother about it.
This is a good point. Also the good stuff will (probably) be manually posted so these tools only duplicate the bad stuff.