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I know it would be technically feasible, but would it be fully legal for Lemmy to scrape and re-populate posts from all of Reddit's niche community subreddits (
by Solvency 3y ago
I know it would be technically feasible, but would it be fully legal for Lemmy to scrape and re-populate posts from all of Reddit's niche community subreddits (and threads and conversations), 1:1, even maintaining the original user names associated with them... but not connecting them to actual accounts? Almost like static content. And they could use that as a basis for the new community, so that there is at least a baseline repo of content to peruse as real members start to join and post new topics/content?
I feel like that's a nice unorthodox way of making it not feel so viscerally "new and empty", which is usually what leads to a kind of inexplicable ick factor most people have when evaluating whether or not to join a community.
- x86x87 3y agoIdea for a commedy show: the above but actually pay for Reddit api access.
- covercash 3y agoJust use the pushshift archives?
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoI've thought about similar techniques (mainly a static redirect for all reddit links to a read-only archive, as a browser plugin). Technically speaking, this is mass copyright infringement, unless it happens to fall under fair use. Reddit wouldn't have standing (for content its admins didn't create), but every other user would. I can conceivably see a copyright suit being granted class action status, and Reddit (who does have a vested interest, even if they had no standing) bankrolling the whole thing.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoThat depends entirely on whether they want to get sued through the floor. I granted reddit the right to use my submitted content. I never granted that to lemmy. Someone would sue, and they'd win.