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Right. But what I am saying is that even if I turned the setting off and was seeing the bots how would I only see the bits and pieces I wanted from reddit and not the whole of the reddit website mirrored?
You are never going to see all of reddit mirrored. Please read the description again. There is already a mechanism that lets admins create a mapping between specific subreddits and Lemmy communities, and only those subreddits gets pulled.
So, correct me if I'm wrong. But does that mean there has to be a Lemmy community that is synchronous to the subreddit in order to be mirrored?
Exactly. The main purpose is to help bootstrap the niche communities here who still don't have enough people to make it sustainable by bringing the content and eventually the redditors as well.
Does this include past posts or just new posts being mirrored from reddit to Lemmy?
At the moment it's only going to pull posts from the last 12 hours but it can be changed to get farther into the past. The problem to do this is that it will require a lot of API requests, which means having to pay reddit.
Ah. Then it's basically not as useful as the use case I was expecting. Sorry about that. I misunderstood.
I think the use case you have in mind (creating mirror instances of niche sub) can be achived with this system, but then you'd have to run your own lemmy instance - or at least use one where you can create communities and the instance admins are welcoming to bots..