What’s the reference?

It’s a stopgap for people who want to fully switch to lemmy but don’t have all the communities they need yet. I’m finding news to be especially lacking, for example. I’d love to be able to put up a second account with some r/o access to reddit communities to get headlines and know what I need to seek out and get informed about.

Is i2p just a privacy guard to torrent over? Or does it actually help one find content as well?

But does leaving your front door open allow one to legally take a picture of the inside from across the street? I’d say scraping is more akin to that than it is theft. Nothing is removed in scraping, just copied

Question if you know: does a lemmy instance have to be publically accessable to work? Like, if I make an instance on my homelab can the instance “fetch” content and serve it faster locally? Could I reply to a post and have others see it? Etc

I (on lemmy.world) still see your comment, I think delete sync takes a bit with large instances

Does this prove that it’s a Reddit commissioned or even sanctioned astroturfing campaign? No, there isn’t sufficient evidence for that at the moment.

I think it stands to reason though that it has to be someone with access to internal tooling at the very least. Whether I ran full-web-scraping reading/posting or private/public api bots, I could not create posts from accounts in this observed state.

Considering the evidence, a rogue admin is the best-case scenario for what is happening. It’s like arguing that a tweet from elon musk’s account doesn’t constitute sufficient evidence that elon musk posted it. I mean sure, technically, but chances are highly likely it’s true.

Fair enough, it just seems almost as… equally disingenuous? To suggest it’s likely anything else I think. Certainly not accusing you of that being your intent, just saying that underselling a relative certainty can lead a reader to draw the wrong conclusion from the evidence.

If have worded it like “there is no direct evidence to suggest reddit is behind it other than the motive, opportunity, and otherwise inexplicable account properties that a standard user could not replicate as far as I’m aware” that gives you the intellectual out while also selling the relative certainty we should have here

Transparency is the only way auditing and validation can be done. People should own their actions.

The joke/truth is that users are willing to pay for good services and good products. Spez could have had a cut of either of those but actively chose not to via the way things were handled.