From a technical and legal standpoint, ignoring ethics and dignity, is there anything preventing us from scripting a scraper that recreates reddit posts in a lemmy instance? Like maybe top 50 posts of the top 20 subreddits, without comments. I think it would help convince people to join, since the major argument for sticking with reddit is that it has more content. Thoughts?
Not directly/automatically, no. But I personally don’t see anything wrong with the same article being reported on HackerNews, Slashdot, Reddit and Lemmy; that’s just similar sites doing similar sitey things.