Indefinite Blackout: Next Steps, Polling Your Community, and Where We Go From Here
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On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit app now operating, from...

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they’ve got another thing coming…

  • AndreasEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    We’ll probably need more than one day if the archive includes all of the threads (which also include a lot of good information) and not just the wiki. There is this Reddit importer that can take post and comment data scraped from the Reddit API and import it into Lemmy, but because of the volume of data, it will take a while before the scraping is complete by July 1st.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’m not going to re-import /r/piracy into lemmy. I am probably going to put /r/piracy into restricted mode eventually

      • DownloadMode@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I agree, r/piracy should not be added into Lemmy. It should be separate. Perhaps some kind of archive could be made at some point and made into a torrent or hosted somewhere. Restricted would probably be fine.