I agree, but unless you're asserting Harry did that, I don't understand why you brought that up.

I haven't touched the series in quite a long time, so you could be making specific references to specific things he did for all I know.

The nice part about my idea is that even with those hurdles in mind, I still proposed it knowing that all it would take is one person to happen upon whichever post or subreddit to auto-scrape and get the discussion on Lemmy going.

Let's be real; 99% of the reason Lemmy is less popular than Reddit is copy+pasting a link, writing your own title, etc. is more effort than 0, therefore the Lemmy-Reddit hybrids like myself don't bother.

Hell, even the staunchly anti-Reddit Lemmites who could be parasitically "stealing" posts and comments to steal Reddit's thunder don't do it. There are other things they'd rather do, evidently.

Now that I think of it, after using the word "scrape," it could be that Reddit ToS follows most websites' in that scraping is explicitly forbidden, so displaying the open source code (or even using it) would incur legal action from Reddit.

Of course not. That's why I said "To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, [...]"

Here's my Amateur Coder waving the Wand of Coding idea:

What if we had a FOSS browser extension that scraped Reddit passively, uploading everything you see as you browse (except PII like your username and PMs and such) via bot to Lemmy (on a delay so they can't pinpoint your identity as easily?)

I can't be the only one who splits their time between Lemmy and Reddit, and would much rather participate here than there, but there's much less to comment on here.

My favorite subreddit (/r/tampa) recently perma-banned me for extremely petty reasons, but /c/tampa is a ghost town.

On a long enough timeline, every Lemmy thread eventually becomes one of the following:

1. ACAB

2. Trump bad

3. FOSS good

4. Reddit bad

5. Socialism (generally, via vanguard party) good

6. Tankies (i.e. #5) bad

Not that I disagree with most of the above, but we need some normies in here to balance things out, so invite them and don't demonize them. That's made trickier by Reddit banning people for talking about the Fediverse/Lemmy, so you have to be clever about it.

I really don't know if what you state is accurate because I don't recall from reading the books or watching the movies, so I can't really comment on your prediction, and honestly we're so far off-topic I'm barely interested in developing an opinion on it.

I just generally disagree with "Fred and George were better contributors to the resistance than the Trio," for reasons stated above.

Again, cart before horse.

You're asserting that there are no helpful cops, therefore Harry being helpful means he should not be a cop.

In reality, Harry being helpful should be a cop, because he could be in a position to help people.

Dexter/Batman don't do a lot of helping, they just crack skulls of people they perceive as bad. Ironically for your point, much like most IRL cops.

True, but if we're assigning roles via broad strokes as a proportion of their contributions, Fred and George were propagandists/saboteurs/etc. and Harry 'n' Co. were direct action.

Doing a quick propaganda as a trigger-puller doesn't mean you're now a propagandist, nor does doing a quick gunshot mean you're now a fighter.

Again, Fred and George were vital elements, but (90%) Support is not more important than Fighting.

Lemmy's not that computer science oriented any more, much like Reddit.

This community specifically is a comics community, and this comic is about a very mainstream fiction series. Can't get much more normie than that.

One concern seemingly nobody is discussing here is:

Is Harry a good person?

If so, and he's good at the things you state (and especially if he's only good at the things you state), why should he not be a cop?

You can't really have a resistance without support like Fred and George and fighters like Harry.

A resistance with only supporters isn't a resistance; it's blogging.

I think we're putting the cart before the horse here.

Assuming Harry is virtuous and good and brave and excellent at fighting dark wizards and helping people, wouldn't that be the perfect person to become a cop?