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Could build a system, that mirrors/pulls/aggregates all posts from reddit because anyone can pull those and use them via their api, and once a person 'connects'
by gremlinsinc 8y ago
Could build a system, that mirrors/pulls/aggregates all posts from reddit because anyone can pull those and use them via their api, and once a person 'connects' their account from reddit, it could import/transfer all comments over...for that one user... the key would be seemly duplicating all reddit, and moving their traffic to the federated version.
How does archive.org get away w/ archiving reddit pages and content?
You'd think their api would make it not possible to break the policy above, but you can grab comments/posts/etc json feeds without an api key, and agreeing to anything at all.
It says and 'to authorize others to do so too....' could that mean by 'others' anybody who accesses reddit endpoints via api? Or uses the .json feeds?
- fjsolwmv 8y agoArchive.org uses the "archival library" argument of fair use.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThere are already multiple of these. The most avid consumers of my own posts seem to bee reputation-farming robots at reddit clones, on Twitter, and the odd Wordpress blog. Reddit publishes RSS feeds, and has a pretty robust API. The behaviour described is one consequence of these.
- pjc50 8y agoThe archival isn't the most interesting or useful part of it. It's the new posts. For a while during the LJ/Dreamwidth transition there were people using apps to post on both, and Dreamwidth even let you follow arbitary RSS feeds so you could include reading public LJ through it. It still took a long time to transition most communities, until the Russian buyout and change of policies.