I recently came across a torrent that seems to be an archive of Reddit. It got me thinking if it would be possible to make it locally browsable. However, I also considered the possibility that someone might have already addressed this by creating a public Lemmy instance, enabling the content to be accessible from any federated instance.

  • InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    It would be helpful if there were an instance that migrated all of this to Lemmy so that we could access it from any other instance, instead of having to download it for local browsing.

    • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t downloaded it. Looks like a collection of compressed files, but I don’t know exactly what’s inside of them. Do you know what format they’re in?

    • taladarEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t really see how this would be useful. Having purely archived data available in a software designed to show you new posts feels like a format/content mismatch.

      • InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I find Reddit more useful because of all the data it has than because of the new posts. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

        • taladarEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          My point was that a software designed to not show you month old posts is maybe not a good viewer for archived reddit data.