For the benefit of the people

I mean we want the memes here, someone has to bring them over, and that person deserves to be paid for their work.

ok the pay is imaginary internet points but they can be redeemed for serotonin.

I'd rather have my pay in pounds-fucking-sterling but hey brain chemicals arent bad either
Sorry, seretonin machine is broken 😞
How about a high five and a nice glare
- Gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimme
Omg I'd be way more inclined to post to gain "serotonin" over karma.

i tell you .clone reddit! local save all top reddit post and repost it here as much as possible .

If you use the Mlem app it actually does have an upvote/karma counter on your profile

I'll study the protocols to check if that's possible. What's the point of doing anything if not for Internet points that are completely useless?

Also, take my !silver. Make good use of it!

Thank you Kind stranger. I'll tip my crusty fedora
- Did the rust on our machine start to develop a crust?

It ain't much but it's honest work.

Automate it with a bot.

Reddit API moment
- We've still got two weeks of API status quo, right? It'd be wicked if someone could manage to populate Lemmy with a huge amount of reddit content (maybe a few whole subreddits? or the last few weeks of a crapload of different smaller niche subreddits?) to jumpstart this community into a viable alternative by having similar-ish content volume.
  
  The thing that's so daunting for me is having to start over in so many niche communities that don't exist here yet. Let's 'clone' reddit while we can and then just go cold turkey on reddit entirely on June 30th! That sure would send a message...
- Actually don't even need the api if you're just copying the the post, simply scraping pages will do
Do you know how to do this? Asking seriously!
- With the reddit api /s
- 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.