@reddit_bot_linker@sh.itjust.works hello let's try it
Hello fellow Lemmings! I hope this is the right place to ask this. I don't understand how web domains work. Let's say I want to buy the domain "abcdefghi.net". I can go to a domain provider like haruba or godaddy and just buy it. but how can they, a private, sell me these domains? I'm not talking about the hosting, but just the domain. where do they register this domain I'm buying? isn't it possible to register it myself instead of paying these services to do it for me?
Thanks! I'll share any news here on lemmy
I Read the terms of service and what I understood is that the intellectual property of the content is the users', not reddit's, but I asked on r/legaladvices for security (there is no equivalent community on lemmy yet)
Not giving a cent to reddit XD
Do you think this may be "dangerous" for me?
Yes I'll upload the code very soon!
Also it would be great if it could copy at least top-level comments by OP, because that's often used for linking to a source.
Great idea! Thanks!
Hello! I wrote a simple bot that periodically checks for new reddit posts and posts them to lemmy, so that people migrating from reddit to lemmy can still be able to see their favourite posts, but familiarizing with lemmy.
currently the coments are not synced, but this may change in the future (perhaps)
Yes, it uses the Reddit API, so it will stop working on the 1st of July, but I think that then I can implement a sort of web scraper to access Reddit posts without the official API, so this may eventually keep working for a while.
this script is currently on my laptop so it will be offline most of the time, but if I get the approval I may host it somewhere to get it running 24h/24.
now the question... Is this allowed? having this bot running 24h/24 on large subreddits will mean a very high quantity of posts. will this cause any problem to Lemmy?
if you want a preview check out https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes, where I started syncing a few posts from r/memes
let me know your opinion on this!
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The bot is now running in https://sh.itjust.works/c/reddit_memes, let's try to see if it work (I hope that shit just works)
I'm a bit concerned about the legality of this, if anyone has any info please tell me!