Comment by bhouston

2 years ago

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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Applejinx  2 years ago

I'm certain you got downvoted over the word 'serf'. I upvoted because my reaction to that framing is more positive, but it's not a framing I would use, myself, because I would expect to get some flak for it.

mderazon  2 years ago

What about migrating historic data from Reddit ? Is that possible?

  • bhouston  2 years ago

    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.

    • toyg  2 years ago

      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.