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

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

FYI I don’t think we’re likely to get post embeds - at least on the official lemmy UI. Twitter+Facebook do it in a way that means they get to dump their tracking pixels all over the page, which is a privacy nightmare. Youtube at least uses an iFrame which doesn’t seem to have this issue.

[–] RaoulDuke 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't even think of the privacy aspect. Of course they put their tracking pixels there, ffs. I bet Reddit does too.

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