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Preserving Reddit's knowledge on Lemmy, and the ethical questions that raises (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tymon@lemm.ee to c/general@lemmy.world
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"The Reddit Trick" in Google searches has been my go-to for the last several years. It's almost become a prerequisite for the search engine to even function at this point.

However, due to Reddit's impressively thorough bed-shitting, and the in-progress mass migration off of it, it might be a good idea to have some redundancies in place for that weird, digital, usage-case-specific Library of Alexandria.

I feel a little funny about simply copying/pasting useful info threads off of Reddit and into their applicable Lemmy communities (also what are we calling subreddits here on Lemmy? Communities doesn't quite cut it because subreddits is shortened to subs while communities is shortened to... well), at least without having the original posters who did the work involved.

If it's something common-knowledgy, like a Life Pro Tip, sure, it's fair game, re-post away. But if it's stuff that actually required any R&D, what do we then? Is there an ethical or moral consensus on that kind of thing, or is that still being built in discussions here?

P.S. - I vote we call "subs" here on Lemmy "lubs"

EDIT: lubs is a joke, y'all

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that it's one of my biggest laments with the downfall of Reddit. Whenever I would have a question or a problem, googling it with "reddit" at the end would yield actually useful results from real people as opposed to garbage AI generated articles of what it thinks I want.

Reposting all of the content onto Lemmy makes no sense though. It would almost be better if someone just made a full site mirror/archive copy that is able to be indexed by Google. I know wayback machine is a thing, but you have to first search for your Reddit link and THEN navigate to web archive and plug it in...and then hope a page was actually saved before the shutdown.

Also, this federation concept is neat I suppose...but one of the big downsides is that we can't just paste "lemmy" at the end and get a conversation we are looking for. Because every instance has a different title/website name.

[–] Evoke3626@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I disagree heavily. I think copy pasting all Reddit content would be an awesome way to pick up and sort of move and continue easily on lemmy. Imo it would reduce interruptions and lessen my reliance on Reddit for general real life user info