By “here” I mean all of the Fediverse, but more specifically sh.itjust.works; I don’t want to cause any bad vibes in my new home instance.
I don’t NORMALLY post, and I’m limiting my access to Reddit in favor of Lemmy, but if stealing from the rich is acceptable, I’m happy to occasionally Robin Hood content over; I just prefer my theft to be within prevailing ethical guidelines.
Thanks!
depends, a lot of whats on reddit came from elsewhere, sometimes from years before. I dont feel any need to credit reddit for anything like that I grab, if its new and a post unique to the site, I bring it over as an ARCHIVE and link it.
It’s a really good idea to archive it because there’s no reason to believe reddit will exist in two years.
that is my thinking, I also mainly post about tech and often research or FOSS, so there is very little I feel I can’t at least archive. When it comes to more creative work, id try to avoid bringing it over. Still kind of not sure about stuff like personal finance advice.
All that said, when it comes to text, its now trivial to re-write it.
Archiving is a good idea, but I don’t know how to do that. Any suggestions on a good guide or am I making it too complicated?
all else fails
COPY/PASTE title with ARCHIVE as a the heading in the body.
Thank you!
Reddit steals from all over the internet. It’s fine to grab content you like and post it here.
I see nothing unethical about it. Reddit is mainly a link aggregator which means most of the content is not actually hosted by them. In these cases Reddit merely posts links to sites that host said content, and they usually credit the original creators if it’s not apparent from the post itself. I see nothing wrong with crossposting from Reddit as long as you also include the username of the poster if it’s a text post, or using the same source citations as they do.
Edit: others have pointed out using archive.org. I’d recommend that as well.
As far as I can tell - its fine, but if you use a bot to do it, don’t spam a bunch at once.
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Steal hard!
There have been a lot of posts/discussions on this topic. Some people have been using bots to pull Reddit content and post it here. There’s not complete agreement on it, but my take on the main feelings are:
- It depends a bit on the community. If it’s one that’s mostly, say, pics without much discussion expected, people have less of a problem with it.
- Some people who moderated Reddit subs moved here and wanted to take their content with them, and most people don’t have an issue with that.
- No one has an issue if you see something like a video or a news item on Reddit and post a link to the source here. Hell, lots of Reddit content came from people seeing stuff on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- What people most objected to is copying over gobs of discussion posts that didn’t have any of the above attributes. If I went into a community and saw 200 posts with no responses, I’d have no reason to comment on any of them. And doing it a lot just makes /new look like spam.
I’ve seen a few bots that literally just link to reddit which defeats the whole purpose of moving here???
With that in mind, I wouldn’t mind if you had a backlog of reddit content you previously downloaded, because again… the point in moving to this platform was to stop giving reddit money. Like, yeah sure if you don’t post to reddit, you’re not providing an incentive for others to stay on the site but if enough people go to reddit for content, we’re just giving them money anyway via ads.
I’m sure the majority of users won’t care regardless.
But content could be moved here without giving them money using their free tier API. We’d just need to make a bot that downloads their best posts and puts them here.
Personally, this seems like a good idea to attract more people… But it doesn’t feel organic.
Hard agree
