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They're already accusing us of being thieves for not using their shitty app, might as well live up to it.
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I feel like calling it stealing is too aggressive. Reddit is a link aggregator, so a lot of the initial content is a link to somewhere else. It's technically not Reddit's OC to begin with, no?
Then, as far as reposting things like images, similar argument—there's a lot of reposts of that content on Reddit anyway. It's a grayer area than the former, imho. But as long as you don't rebadge it like 9gag does, I personally don't see anything wrong with it as a way to bootstrap activity.
Hell, that's what these massive AI companies did with their training days. Gotta play a little dirty I guess.
Wouldn't you need an API for that
Yes, but I think you could keep it cheap/free because you're just polling for top posts once an hour/day/whatever, and not trying to rip every comment from every thread. The free tier API (100 calls/min) would pretty easily cover this per magazine.