Parts of Reddit are staying dark. Our search results may suffer for it.
Parts of Reddit are staying dark. Our search results may suffer for it.
Like it or not, years of insight, experience and expertise live in Reddit threads. But accessing some of them just got harder.
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I wonder if there is an import script that can migrate threads and comments over to Lemmy
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.
🤔wish I could code...
Luckily, the barrier for entry is having a computer and hands!
And a competent brain...
Yeah those are harder to acquire
And reddit -> lemmy migration script is going to be one of the easiest thing you can write. That is without the API limit and the sheer amount being the biggest problem...