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bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I saw a bunch of posts from @rglullis@communick.news promoting a project called fediverser which at first i thought was just like lemmit didn’t see the need for it. The main difference is that not just posts are imported into Lemmy, but also the comments. The idea is that for each reddit user who comments, that comment is added to a shadow profile in Lemmy and commented on the post. The idea being over time, the reddit users will have profiles in Lemmy already populated, that they can take ownership of, and don’t have to start from scratch finding an instance or creating an account.
Obviously everyone has their opinions of it, but maybe it’d work out for the Kerbal Space Program community, since Lemmy is more technically focused. This might remove a barrier of entry for new users joining your communities.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That sounds like it has some privacy implications that don’t sound too agreeable. Posts you make on one site being duplicated on another site without your knowledge or consent is an ethical breach of trust.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
What about “privacy” is being violated when every post and submission is public and indexable by any search engine?
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you join service Y and make posts with your username under Y, you don’t automatically consent to having those posts reposted on service Z under your username.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
This is not about privacy, it’s about copyright. And pretty much like archive.org, having a site mirroring public content can be argued to be fair use.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Reddit states in the privacy policy that they are already sharing this information already: