This may be against reddits TOS and may have legal consequences. But I guess mostly for the person operating the bot, and not the Lemmy instance, as long as they block the bot on request.
Do you think this may be "dangerous" for me?
I have no idea, but at least in EU you may be violating copyright by copying someone else's database (i.e. collection of data). I am not a lawyer though...
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)
Yeah database protection is even for stuff that you don't own. You have then spent effort to compile the database. Which in this case is the collection of people's posts. But maybe asks lawyer if that applies in this case.
Thanks! I'll share any news here on lemmy
Ha! I have been working on the same thing this weekend, except it uses the rss feed for posts and scrapes old.reddit.com for the details. It's written in python, but not quite finished - scraping works, automation not yet.
My plan was to have a separate Lemmy instance for this, where people can also request for new subs to be included. This would reduce the spam in bigger communities, and allow instances to block it all together if they wanted to.
Beside that, I'd pre- or postfix each post with a message it's a copy and a link to the original for copyright reasons. Moderation would be a separate story - Not particularly looking forward to that. Could make it so that if a post were flagged, it would re-aync with the original. Let reddit do the moderation :D
I was thinking of something like that too, but probably never would've gotten around to implement it myself, so thanks! Could you put your script on Github or something maybe?
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.
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