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could we mirror reddit? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Communist@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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@lemmy.jamestrey.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Communist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] really_new_user@lemmy.jamestrey.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.