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?

  • @pimento
    3•4 years ago

    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

    • Muad'DibberMA
      2•4 years ago

      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_hoarder or whoever, and all the comments are in there.

      Obvi we’d want to test locally before actually doing the import.

    • @ImARabbit
      1•4 years ago

      If the user names all had _archived appended then that would be clear. Can one also lock participation on a thread?

        • @ImARabbit
          2•4 years ago

          So I’d advocate for keeping unique names for Reddit users but probably obfuscating them to be polite and locking the archived threads

          • Muad'DibberMA
            1•4 years ago

            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.