Reddit Copy Project?
Has anyone started to create some form of ‘Copy’ Project for Reddit, Not like a clone of the site or something. I’m more thinking of a project that’s goal is to almost duplicate what Reddit currently has on it directly to Lemmy or other Fediverse platforms?
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Pulling down each subreddit via PRAW wouldn’t be too hard.
https://youtu.be/FdjVoOf9HN4
The challenge is we'd probably need a significant amount of people willing to build/leverage their API tokens and "upload" them to Lemmy. Pulling I think would be the easy part.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/FdjVoOf9HN4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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I get APIs are a great thing to use but I'm pretty sure Reddit is charging for APIs. Maybe that's one of the reason they started doing it, they might be scared of decentralised systems.