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You can now get reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, without any ads ;) (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wander@yiffit.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Check out !worldnews@lemmit.online. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads.

Also, these posts can then be cross-posted to help us create more content on lemmy native communities. Although I do recommend removing most of the post body when cross-posting. Alternatively you can turn the cross-post into a native post as if you simply were sharing content that you've seen on reddit, but with the perk of not having to load reddit.

You can make requests for subs to fetch at !requests@lemmit.online.

In the end we're just using lemmy and lemmit's bot as a simple RSS reader, so nothing illegal or even remotely unethical happening here.

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[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

What's to stop all 3rd party apps from doing the same thing? Or is it a read-only one-way kind of deal?

[-] Wander@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's read only and it doesn't give you access to the original comments. But it works really well for stuff like news, images, etc... where the discussion is mostly not the important part.

A good idea is to create discussions on the lemmy side. What I would do is cross-post it or post it to native lemmy communities and then we can have the discussions there. For example, for news articles and stuff like that.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Of course, discussions will happen here on Lemmy. It's just a matter of these communities federating so we can all get access to them. So far they don't come up in my search from other instances.

[-] RedCanasta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

So we'll just be an extension to Reddit then?

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, Reddit would just be another source of stuff to share.

[-] ewe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Probably would work to seed small communities with subreddit data, but...the maxim of "the real LPT is always in the comments" holds true (i.e. posts without comments is not what these places are about) and until users come and interact, this isn't a substitute for being a real community.

Def a decent idea to jumpstart communities, as long as people aren't too put off by the post data coming from reddit.