Great plan what could go wrong?
Yea, what’s to stop me from creating a bot to ping the Reddit API, grab the top posts from a sub, check for duplicates, then repost to Lemmy using their API.
Granted, I’m making many an assumption here.
You can also scrape it from the HTML without calling the API directly
Did you hear about the recent Reddit API changes, by any chance?
If you use a personal api token that only you are using it shouldn’t have enough usage to cost anything
Even if it did cause an issue. Web scrapping is viable too
Failing that, there’s always a combo of wayback machine, reveddit etc.
Is “scrapping” autocorrect, a typo, or intended? Not meaning to be rude just interested because I’ve only heard of “web scraping” but often see people write “scrapping”.
Not autocorrect. Just my half ass way of shortening the phrase
I didn’t know you could generate a personal token.
My bad. Wrong choice of words. I meant an api access key that only you are using
Why the manual labor?? Let’s better make a bot to do the job… Oh no.
Oh no no no.
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I hope poemforyoursprog makes the jump.
Holy shit! I forgot how good it was finding their poems in the wild. 100% hope they make the jump 🤞🤞
Would I be worth it/possible to basically copy all of Reddit’s content into Lemmy? Most of Reddit’s usefulness to me is that practically any problem I encounter, I google google the question + Reddit and find a post with the answers I need. I’m sure I’ll be able to do that with Lemmy in a few years but for now 🤷♂️
All excellent ideas. I just didn’t want to lose all the content I created over the 10 years being on Reddit. Not to mention all the great post I saved and even comments I created. And some others created and I saved.
Because they had made a great quote, or list of books I should read. Want to save all that content.
In any case I would definitely look into backing these up for you personally.
I am not too fond of the idea of pumping old reddit content out onto lemmy (you couldn’t recreate the entire threads by yourself anyways).
BUT, I too have a post or two that I like a lot and would love to be on lemmy too. I know it’s a bit more work, but maybe create a summary post of the topic in a fitting sublemmy. That way you do transfer the knowledge and make it accessible again AND you create a new high-quality piece of content for this community. It may not be new to the world, but it will be new to basically anyone over here! Reddit is so vast, stuff just gets buried and most people never saw it.
I was thinking of just posting my old Reddit posts over here not the whole thread of comments. Be interesting but a lot of work and like you said it wouldn’t be the same. But an archive of it would be nice.
Why though? I’ve got no problem when Google sometimes leads me to an old reddit post. No need to have them all duplicated on lemmy. Let’s just make lemmy the place for the new content
Yeah I didn’t really think it through, you’re right.
Yes
Bro there is no karma/points here. If thats what you wanted
Where you gonna spend your upvote points? At the points store?
I trade them in I guess. Funny spent so much time trying to earn karma just to find it all was for nothing.
At the canteen.
Would be cool if there was some way to migrate the posts on reddit to lemmy just all together. My initial thought is to make the posts tied to the op while also filtering based on karma and overall interaction to skip over duplicates and spam. Just making it tied to the op is the part I have no clue on how itll work.
