this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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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!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

After all that work they did to screenshot Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't care. If there's something important happening I'd like to know about it, and my reddit app is broken so you'd be doing me a favor. If it's a bot doing it, then nah.

[–] ComfortablyGlum 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a bot; just a curious lurker who might get a slight thrill out of filching from reddit for the betterment of Lemmy.

[–] Hagarashi8 10 points 1 year ago

Then go ahead and steal some memes. Just never link reddit. Never.

[–] CookieJarObserver 29 points 1 year ago

Its not reddits belongings, just take it, the users don't care either. But, do never link reddit, not everyone has that shithole of a website on their block list.

[–] ryathal 25 points 1 year ago

Lemmy as a whole is at a growth at any cost period, if you can make a community more active, then go for it.

[–] drascus 18 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't know if it was on reddit. I don't think it belongs to them anyway.

[–] cyu 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember when Digg and Reddit were equally competitive. People were taking stuff from one site and putting it on the other all the time (until Digg eventually died). I imagine it will soon be the case here.

[–] cantstopthesignal 1 points 1 year ago

At this point someone could make a lemmy community that just has a bot post the top of reddit. They don't own the information users are generating.

[–] Slacking 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's fine, even more so if you name who the original author is. I already created two clone subs and I plan on boosting them with a lot of stolen content from a bit everywhere until people join, if they do.

That being said, I'm new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i guess i ll start taking screenshots too of my favourite subs.

[–] qwamqwamqwam 13 points 1 year ago

There are bots that scrape content off of reddit and repost it here, so as far as actual consequences go I doubt there are any. Personally, I try to keep all of my content original, but then again I like the original places I'm trying to rebuild over here so YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Doit.jpg and also justdoit.gif

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

ideally, you wouldnt have to do it - but some communities have next to no content. I suppose, provide credit where credit is due, etc.

[–] cantstopthesignal 9 points 1 year ago

Fuckin' do it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I encourage it as long as you're not claiming to be the original poster.

[–] Leer10 7 points 1 year ago

I'd rather see it because I'm trying to use reddit less, so it'd be nice if cross posters shared some good ass content

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 7 points 1 year ago

The majority of stuff on reddit is "stolen" in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I do attribution and link back via libreddit to the source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just posted this same question here: https://yiffit.net/post/248094

You might find the comments useful.

[–] ComfortablyGlum 2 points 1 year ago

I did see that, and found the responses very helpful. I think it's a great idea to bring over useful information that might be found on reddit.

But I was thinking more mindless stuff; like cat videos or the office memes. It's hard to tell what's original and what's not with stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you are manually copying something over, I put the text in > quotation and link to the original, replacing the reddit.com part of the link with libreddit.hu

I just quote the source just like any other website, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The internet is basically just five websites where each one shows screenshots of the other four anyways.