I don't think I'd like to see pre-population of content, but I think preemptively opening topics for some of the more popular subreddits would help people organize more quickly.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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I dislike the idea. IMO it's better to letthe communities and content grow organically and become something new instead of copying over all of Reddit.
I agree but it might give it the content it need to be used and then start making original content
I think its better if you copy one or two good posts a day manually.
Bots potentially might be effected by the API changes coming in a couple weeks. Personally, I think we could benefit from a few utility bots like AutoMod, AutoTldr, RemindMe, WikiLink. (None of those would rely on Reddit either)
If we wanted bots to automatically bring in content, we should just pull news/posts directly from sources instead of going through Reddit. I could totally see something like an NPR bot.
We just have to be careful with the bots that push content to the site here. We don’t want to flood communities and dilute where discussions are happening. I’ve looked at some other Reddit alternatives and they’ve done that to themselves. They might have tons of recent posts but they all have 0 to 1 comments on them with no other engagement.
Reddit does have free RSS/ATOM feeds AFAIK, they are just strongly rate limited to prevent abuse. A single bot pulling RSS feeds for a few communities should be indistinguishable from a regular user though. This bot can pull RSS feeds and post them to Lemmy: https://github.com/pooza/tomato-shrieker