By “here” I mean all of the Fediverse, but more specifically sh.itjust.works; I don’t want to cause any bad vibes in my new home instance.

I don’t NORMALLY post, and I’m limiting my access to Reddit in favor of Lemmy, but if stealing from the rich is acceptable, I’m happy to occasionally Robin Hood content over; I just prefer my theft to be within prevailing ethical guidelines.

Thanks!

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    I don’t care. If there’s something important happening I’d like to know about it, and my reddit app is broken so you’d be doing me a favor. If it’s a bot doing it, then nah.

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    Its not reddits belongings, just take it, the users don’t care either. But, do never link reddit, not everyone has that shithole of a website on their block list.

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    Lemmy as a whole is at a growth at any cost period, if you can make a community more active, then go for it.

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    I remember when Digg and Reddit were equally competitive. People were taking stuff from one site and putting it on the other all the time (until Digg eventually died). I imagine it will soon be the case here.

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      At this point someone could make a lemmy community that just has a bot post the top of reddit. They don’t own the information users are generating.

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    There are bots that scrape content off of reddit and repost it here, so as far as actual consequences go I doubt there are any. Personally, I try to keep all of my content original, but then again I like the original places I’m trying to rebuild over here so YMMV.

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    I think it’s fine, even more so if you name who the original author is. I already created two clone subs and I plan on boosting them with a lot of stolen content from a bit everywhere until people join, if they do.

    That being said, I’m new.

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    ideally, you wouldnt have to do it - but some communities have next to no content. I suppose, provide credit where credit is due, etc.

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    I’d rather see it because I’m trying to use reddit less, so it’d be nice if cross posters shared some good ass content