I’ve been thinking about this today…
If there’s a divide among people who want to still use Reddit and others who want to try out the Fediverse (Kbin, Lemmy, etc), I believe it may be a good idea if we had a bot that could mimic at least the posts (and maybe later even the comments) on subreddits that people are missing out here in the Fediverse. This can at least help populate the emptier communities that are here on the Fediverse and incentivize people to remain here without the fear of FOMO (myself included).
Is there any existing solution that could provide the necessary functionality? How feasible would this be if someone would start working on this now, considering the Reddit API changes?
You bring up a good point in the reddit API pricing, in that the fediverse would then become like a giant third party reddit client. One advantage being that the API calls could be much fewer in total, because any given post or comment only has to be requested once, and after that, they’d be on the fediverse, available to all.
Also it might have copyright implications.
I don’t think it has copyright implications, as the other user has shown, unless it’s some original work. I wouldn’t mind the posts on the Fediverse mentioning the original authors on Reddit and even linking back to the post just in case.
Except platforms often claim ownership over user generated content. Legally, reddit could absolutely declare that copying stuff off their platform is stealing. That’s kind of why this whole API thing is happening, as least they claim, that they are doing it to monetize the usage of reddit as training data for AI.
If we start taking that and making it accessible outside reddit, I am almost certain they will retaliate in some way.