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I used wget on Ubuntu to clone pages from piefed to build Zyke, a Reddit alternative (zyke.social)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Here’s the logic:
wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https://example.com

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[+] [S] -41 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Was looking for a hobby, something I could work on for a long time then eventually put ads. No pop ups just banner ads at the appropriate places

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    That you don't see the ethical and moral problems with that plan is highly concerning.

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  • [+] [S] -16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    It’s my own backend, written in FastAPI The frontend was just copied and upgraded.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago*

    Why don't you just implement federation normally instead of taking this roundabout way of doing things? As long as your site contributes content back, and makes it clear where content is from, other projects like piefed and lemmy would be happy to have your project join the network.

    Continuing like this will likely get you IP blocked from wherever you're mirroring content from.

    Also these platforms are open source. You are allowed to copy and modify things for your own projects, as long as you follow the basic rules in the license.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    But you're scraping piefed.social to fill your site with content so you can monetize it, while increasing hosting costs for piefed for your own gain.

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Naaaah I only scraped the design, the content will be curated by me and my team

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    I think you are confusing terms. Scraping a website means to download copies of its pages. Mirroring means taking those scraped page copies and re-hosting them on your website. Since you said you were doing both of those things, that would mean you would be mass scraping the site to rehost (mirror) on yours.

    If you are not doing either of those, then you are not mass scraping or mirroring. It sounds like instead you just scraped a few pages of piefed, and then modified the CSS/HTML of the page itself for your own purposes?

    If so, that's not as bad as I thought.

    However, I can guarantee you that no one here is interested in joining an isolated reddit clone that isn't federated with Piefed or lemmy, and which is explicitly designed to eventually allow you to throw ads on it for passive income. That is precisely what we all were trying to escape when we left reddit for the fediverse.

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Social media is the current hotly contested battle ground for hearts and minds for the next few generations and it looks like you're experiencing what happens when you accidentally barge into it w good intentions from the people that want you to stay out.

    20ish years ago people would have been idly curious at the most about your hobby; now they're trying bully you into giving it up.

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