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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 1 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36435600[source]▶
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

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mderazon ◴[22 Jun 23 17:25 UTC] No.36435639[source]▶
Moving entire communities there is going to be challenging
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:27 UTC] No.36435656[source]▶
The trick is to both (1) promote equivalent communitie to existing Reddits - let them know there are alternaives to being a serf -- and (2) start posting on there. Be the change you want to see!

The federated future for social is coming, albeit slowly in fits and starts. What is nice is that many of the communities on these two are shared because it is the fediverse.

EDIT: Downvoted why?

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mderazon ◴[22 Jun 23 17:37 UTC] No.36435809[source]▶
What about migrating historic data from Reddit ? Is that possible?
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36435859[source]▶
From a technical standpoint: Archive.org is archiving Reddit data. So someone just needs to write an importer for that data. I would have suggested reading from Reddit's APIs directly but they are shutting those down.

From a legal standpoint: I am unsure.

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1. toyg ◴[22 Jun 23 18:56 UTC] No.36437027[source]▶
Do they archive nsfw too?

Edit: I checked, and Archive.org seems to be snapshotting once per quarter or less. Not a realistic strategy for any sub with even modest traffic.