I want to add a community that is essentially the Lemmy version of an existing subreddit (r/mcmansionhell). Is this allowed?

  • JasSmith@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Fuck yeah it is! Make as many subs as you want baby! This is the Wild West and we have blackjack and hookers! Make a McMansion magazine. Hell, make two!

    • farizer@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The content does not belong to reddit but to the community so I see no reason not to copy it

  • melonpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve seen it talked about a few times across different platforms (Hackernews) where people have pondered the idea of cloning old posts, keeping the poster name but to a non-existent account. Acting as both a way to populate a community and archive content away from Reddit’s control.

    I haven’t seen any examples of this done yet, not sure if anyone has.

    • Aquifel@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It would be a bit of a project, but the most time-consuming part is already done. /r/datahoarder has a backup of reddit comment/post history that goes from the beginning of reddit up to March of 2023 (text only, no media). It’s compressed down to about 2TB in size, but already in json format and anyone can download it, would just need some work to convert that to a format a fediverse instance could work with and somehow inject it into a new instance.

      • ikiru@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Do you mean they have a backup of comment and post history from /r/datahoarder or a backup of literally all reddit?

          • ikiru@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Wow. That’s really impressive. I really enjoyed that sub.

            Also surprising it’s only 2TB.

            • ram@lemmy.ca
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              1 year ago

              It’s JSON so it’s only text, and it’s compressed, but that’s still 1 trillion characters assuming it’s UTF-16. I’ve not actually taken a look myself at the data though, I just contributed to let my PC contribute to the project.