I think we need to do this for all subreddits before the API gets shut down
If you are an instance owner, you can use this tool https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter . However, is all of your sub’s old content really that valuable to bring over? Why not just create the new community, copy the old sidebar info / rules, make a sticky with links to top posts in the old sub, let a few people know (in a way that doesn’t violate the sub’s rules) and let people migrate naturally?
I agree - I would probably recommend even using archive.ph or the Wayback Machine to archive/permalink anything like top posts, if they’re really important. Copying all of the contents of a subreddit to a Lemmy instance just seems like overkill.
Thank you that looks like exactly what I need. Reddit keeping history hostage is one of the way the transition can fail and this breaks that. I am weirded out by all the comments almost unanimously suggesting to burn down the past.
I think it’s more people tired of the pollution that took place, and trying to preserve the clean and friendly one we have so far.
I do personally agree with saving old ones, but I’d highlight them as legacy and then make only the admin be able to edit/create content there, with links to the new one still as suggested before.
Don’t burn books, but let’s not study incorporate the worst things and make them normal here. I think is the feeling.
I support the archiver program myself xD
You should do it in your own instance, you don’t want to get other instances in trouble by using Reddit content. You can download the sub from https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/ and use a script to move the data to the database. Honestly I think that’s what the-eye should do because having the data by itself is not very useful and it isn’t difficult to have a Lemmy instance with that data.
Why get load on a community run project, just let the past die imo.
Use a web archiver on old.reddit.com and store the stuff away for now, is my recommendation. There are concerns about ownership of the content on reddit from a legal perspective, so best to archive as a reference more than anything
