• orthizaR
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    2 years ago

    But for real. You can use something like a webscraper that crawls reddit via the normal web interface and create a bot account on lemmy. Then just download the reddit posts and upload them to lemmy. I would not recommend this as lemmy.ml is currently almost at capacity and uploading tons of reddit posts does not help.

    • c2h6@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Oh I personally don’t intend to, just wanted to understand how it works. Reddit has so many bots it shouldn’t be too advanced programming

    • glibg10b
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      You’d have to create a separate instance in order to preserve subreddit names since those names would conflict with existing names on other instances