Does anyone know if it’s bad karma to rip a bunch of posts off reddit to populate some of the empty communities here so it doesn’t feel so dead to new users?

I think so long as you credit / link back to OP you should be fine. So far the new users are quite open about referring back to reddit for stuff, unlike ex-twitter users on Mastodon.

[–] RaoulDuke 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I don't think it's bad karma. I've spent years on Reddit watching other people's TikToks, reading other people's tweets, watching a repost of a repost of a repost of a video ripped from someone's Facebook... If you give them credit, that's more than most people get in the world of social media.

Reddit has a way to embed posts and it would be cool if links to Reddit embedded the content here, but I don't think that's happened yet. If that happens, all you'd need to do is link to someone's post.

I was considering making a bot that automatically cross-posted stuff from Reddit, but it seemed pretty unpopular with the community. The more I think about it, they were right - a bot doing that was a bad idea for this community. I was thinking of setting up another instance with a bunch of communities that had the top posts from their respective subreddits, but I just haven't got the time to figure all that out at the moment.

But I'm going way off track. I think reposting stuff from Reddit is fine.

Edit: @luthis@lemmy.nz - I meant to reply to your comment

[–] luthis 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Cheers, yeah I think it's actually a really good idea to seed new communities with the top 20 posts from the previous subreddit. Gives a base to start from. Seems like there was mixed support on your linked thread.

Will have to look at making a bot myself..

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you need any help doing it, there are a bunch of very knowledgeable and helpful people in the Lemmy.nz Matrix chat - #lemmynz:matrix.org. If you haven't signed up to Matrix yet, there's an NZ instance of it at mtrx.nz.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found this! https://lemmit.online/

Perhaps the simple answer is to post in the request community asking for /r/newzealand to be added.

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, nice. Just requested it and their bot made the community almost instantly. Might put up a post about it here.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice. Do we need guidelines about using it? Like sure you can subscribe, but what about cross posting to !newzealand?

Cross posts ok? Guidelines on not cross posting questions just links (articles etc) because the questions don't come with the answers? Any thoughts?

[–] RaoulDuke 2 points 1 year ago

I've put up a post about it because I think all the Reddit refugees will be keen, at least in the short term. I think we should have this discussion there so everyone can have their input. It will get lost here.

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