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could we mirror reddit?

3 years ago by Communist to c/fediverse

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What's stopping us from using the api to post all of reddit here in a massive one-time merger?

Obviously the Lemmy devs would have to do it, but would there be legal issues? I think it would solve most of the problems with Lemmy, really.

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really_new_user 4 points 3 years ago

i think it need a lot of storage, and considering that pushshift is dead idk think it will be possible to do it at all

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Communist 1 point 3 years ago

I'd be willing to donate money to such a project. How much storage could it really take, it's almost all text, the images are usually hyperlinks that could stay links.

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really_new_user 2 points 3 years ago

How much storage could it really take

that's the thing we don't know , sites like unddit used pushshift to archive reddit posts , vomments, etc, and its dead so these websites are effectively dead, so i don't think we can do it here.

the images are usually hyperlinks that could stay links.

and imgur started purging old images, where most reddit images are hosted.

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