Like it or not, years of insight, experience and expertise live in Reddit threads. But accessing some of them just got harder.
Like it or not, years of insight, experience and expertise live in Reddit threads. But accessing some of them just got harder.
I wonder if there is an import script that can migrate threads and comments over to Lemmy
🤔wish I could code…
Luckily, the barrier for entry is having a computer and hands!
I have thought about writing something like that. We probably would want to do it 1 subreddit at a time to back up to a specific community.
Is that something we think we would need or want? I haven’t done it yet because I don’t want Lemmy to just be a Reddit content aggregator, I want us to have our own content and communities.
There are import scripts - the problem is that Reddit has disabled the Pushshift API end of March, which makes data exporting significantly harder. There are some archives from before that available as torrent, and there has been effort from r/datahoarders to archive and submit it to archive.org before the shutdown.
I’ve been looking into that for our sub, and concluded it’s currently not sensible - so in case we decide to reopen restricted for archive access I created a bot that re-posts Lemmy postings into the locked subreddit for discoverability, and adds a comment to drive users out for commenting.