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…

  • PirateForDaLolz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    281·
    2 years ago

    Hello everyone! This is my first Lemmy post. :)

    I 100% support a permanent shutdown of r/Piracy, but at the same time, I think it would be very useful if the contents of r/Piracy were made available elsewhere for archival purposes. Could the sub be temporarily reopened in read-only mode to allow for it to be scraped? Or is it already available somewhere?

      • DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yes, only for the purposes of archival and so people who aren’t aware of /r/piracy being reborn like a phoenix on lemmy can find us. But, never unrestricted.

      • 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.