So, this isn’t meant to be a “guide” or anything but I thought it could be helpful to some.
- Find yourself an RSS feed reader (e.g. Feedbin).
- Grab your subreddit link. (Example:
reddit.com/r/museum) - Add
.rssto the end of that link. (Example:reddit.com/r/museum.rss) - Add your subreddit RSS feeds to your feed reader.
This way, you can keep reading reddit without having to visit it. You will still need an account to participate, of course.
But I asked myself this question: “Do I really want to participate and keep feeding reddit content for free?”
You are what makes reddit what it is. If you can be yourself elsewhere, why waste your precious time on reddit?
You deserve better.
Is it permissible to transfer the submissions from reddit to lemmy directly, to at least provide a seed to start conversations going?
If by “permissible” you mean ethically, stuff is posted and reposted on the internet all the time. Much of the posts you see on Reddit aren’t new either. Unless a community expressly forbids it, I think it’s fine.
On the other hand this might be a good opportunity to find some sources that you like reading, and post those (if you’re referring to articles)
Well, I do get a lot of alerts from Google as new topics come in, and I could post those links. That’s mostly the way things are handled in the Futurology and Science subs. Posting those to Lemmy communities should work, I think. I guess I worry about swamping a community with traffic, but if so, I guess whoever manages that community can let me know to dial it back.
Theoretically yes, however… Say User A made a comment on Reddit but User A doesn’t exist (yet) on Lemmy, do you then create a new user for that new user or do you attribute that comment to an “unknown user” ? And if so, what’s the value than of that comment ? You cannot really interact with that comment other then ‘it exists’. But you decide to create a user for that, how do you verify that that person can “migrate” or have access to that ‘new user’ ? Assuming they even want to migrate to Lemmy in the first place.
Not to mention the fact, that it’s probably a GDPR violation to reupload that comment somewhere.
I wasn’t thinking about reuploading comments, just submissions. There are a lot of submissions that would be interesting to discuss here as separate conversations away from reddit. For example, Futurology, Science, Finance, and even Aww and Eyebleach have some nice things to discuss.
There are a ton of twitter bots that do exactly this already. I’ve seen a few mastodon bots do the same so I imagine it’s possible with lemmy as well.
At worst, you could just set it up on mastodon and then have them automatically post to lemmy.
Sorry, I need more coffee 😅 it’s still early here in the EU.
But, I am just thinking out loud here… As long as it isn’t user generated content (like pictures, videos or text content, stuff that generally holds copyright), I can’t really see any reason why from a legal perspective that couldn’t be done.
Well, I can’t see a reason either, but from a community standpoint is that okay?
My guess is, that it is untested waters at this point. Depending on which instance you wanna do it on, you might wanna check / verify with the admins of that instance if they would allow it.