I am trying to archive lefty reddit in the likely off chance that these subs get nuked. Any more subs to add to the list? Any advice on going about archiving it? What should I do with in bedded links?
I am trying to archive lefty reddit in the likely off chance that these subs get nuked. Any more subs to add to the list? Any advice on going about archiving it? What should I do with in bedded links?
Perfect timing, I was just talking about that. What format do you have? If its json, we could import it to Lemmy through the api.
Grabbing posts and comments from the Reddit API would be easy. Would the markdown need the be transformed?
I think its exactly the same, just user/subreddit links wouldnt work.
How do you deal with the name of the poster, since they don’t exist in the Lemmy DB?
Either create an account with that name (only really possible if its a separate instance imo), or you post it all from a user like
communism_backup.The
communism_backupoption seems more reasonable to me. Every post could have the original username from Reddit written at the end of its body and the same logic applies to the comments.It also considers people who may want to join Lemmy with their original account usernames.
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Yea it is in json, I will send you the files through whatever means you would like. Have only got Communism so far
I guess we could put them into something like !communism_archive@lemmygrad.ml or similar.
Isn’t there !reddit_post_archive@lemmygrad.ml exactly for that purpose?
I’d suggest not having the _archive so the sub can have continuity
That would just cause problems, because you would have posts from Reddit and from Lemmy right next to each other. It wouldnt be clear which users you can actually talk with. Might be better to make a completely separate instance for that. Maybe reddit.lemmy.ml?
@muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml
Hrm… It’d probably be fine as an import directly into the community, as long as the published_dates for all the posts and comments also used the correct times. You’d see very obviously that the creator is
data_hoarderor whoever, and all the comments are in there.Obvi we’d want to test locally before actually doing the import.
If the user names all had _archived appended then that would be clear. Can one also lock participation on a thread?
yep you can lock threads.
So I’d advocate for keeping unique names for Reddit users but probably obfuscating them to be polite and locking the archived threads
I wouldn’t want to create new users for non-existent users on here tho. One way we could do it is just put their username in the content body.