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Bot infestation?

Some communities have bots that copies posts from Reddit. Some do that so there would be more content in Lemmy. Those bots probably don't break any rules set by the Admins of those instances.

Personally I don't like that content is being copied without the permission of those who made the posts in Reddit. Also, in some cases it sort of defies the whole point of the community. For example, one of the Explain Like I'm Five communities has a bot like that. The bot includes a link to the original post. Why would anyone reply to the bot's post, when you can just read the explanation from the original post? That doesn't help make Lemmy more active place when a bot posts things and no human ever replies to them.

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Miten uskot Reddit kapinan päättyvän?

Modejahan on jo kengitty ja subeja avattu väkipakolla. r/Piracy oli yksi ensimmäisistä subeista, mikä pakotettiin aukeamaan, niin outo ratkaisu kuin se koskaan onkaan, että avataan subi, jossa keskitytään keskustelemaan laittomista tavoista hankkia kopiosuojattua materiaalia.

Jotkut subit on keksinyt hauskoja tapoja, miten ne voi olla auki, noudattaa Redditin (uusia) sääntöjä ja jatkaa samalla protestointia. Mm. r/pics ja r/gifs on nykyään ainoastaan John Oliverin kuville/giffeille tarkoitettuja subeja. Ja r/Steam on höyrystä kiinnostuneille suunnattu subi. Nämä subit noudattavat sääntöjä, koska ne järjestivät äänestyksen, jossa subin kävijät valitsivat uuden suunnan.

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Can a Lemmy instance be configured to only permanently store posts made by users on the local instance, and posts to communties that are on the local instance?

As far as I know Lemmy stores only text locally and images and such will be linked to the external instance. Text doesn't use much disk space, so that shouldn't be a big a problem. Sometimes when you browse Lemmy, you notice posts that have broken links to images. It's because the other instance is down, but you can still see the text portion of the posts on your home instance.

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Just realized the lie about reddit api pricing

That's the one line that jumped at my face as well when I read that interview. At least one other app developer said they'd have to pay about the same amount of money for Reddit. So all the third party apps would probably be something like 60 million+/year with those numbers.

Relay for Reddit is planning to go subscription only. They are currently planning 2-3 USD per month price point, based on their analysis of users using 100 API calls per day on average. But if the subscription fee drives away low-rate users, they will likely need to increase the price. https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/147152b/update_how_the_current_api_changes_would_impact/

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Reddit officials forces moderators to reopen subreddits or get overthrown

Well this turned ugly fast.

Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable

Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he'll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’