I think we need to do this for all subreddits before the API gets shut down

  • NebLem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • gil (he/they)@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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

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    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.

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    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