I want to add a community that is essentially the Lemmy version of an existing subreddit (r/mcmansionhell). Is this allowed?
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The content does not belong to reddit but to the community so I see no reason not to copy it
…uh, which magazine contains blackjack and hookers?
I’ve seen at least six communities with the same or similar concepts/names as a subreddit, and at least a dozen posts around various communities encouraging any kind of post or engagement including new community creation. Be the content creator you want to see in the fediverse.
Heck you can even start crossposting content with credit.
Yes, that’s perfectly ok.
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I’ve been thinking about this, but I’ve heard the moderation is a lot of work.
I suppose yes. I basically copied a bunch of them.
Okay, thanks everyone!
So is there a way to view this on kbin or do I always have to view it on sh.itjust.works?
you should be able to view it wherever you use lemmy. they’re all federated
https://kbin.social/m/mcmansionhell@sh.itjust.works
This should work after searching the URL straight from kbin… but searching it right now gives me a 500 Server error. Seems like it’s having technical issues.
I’ve been getting 500s all day so it’s most likely the server not being able to keep up with the Reddit migration
400s errors are server side. 500s errors are your side.
Hell, make a copy on every instance.
I’ve seen it talked about a few times across different platforms (Hackernews) where people have pondered the idea of cloning old posts, keeping the poster name but to a non-existent account. Acting as both a way to populate a community and archive content away from Reddit’s control.
I haven’t seen any examples of this done yet, not sure if anyone has.
It would be a bit of a project, but the most time-consuming part is already done. /r/datahoarder has a backup of reddit comment/post history that goes from the beginning of reddit up to March of 2023 (text only, no media). It’s compressed down to about 2TB in size, but already in json format and anyone can download it, would just need some work to convert that to a format a fediverse instance could work with and somehow inject it into a new instance.
Do you mean they have a backup of comment and post history from /r/datahoarder or a backup of literally all reddit?
Literally all of reddit. The entire platform.
Wow. That’s really impressive. I really enjoyed that sub.
Also surprising it’s only 2TB.
It’s JSON so it’s only text, and it’s compressed, but that’s still 1 trillion characters assuming it’s UTF-16. I’ve not actually taken a look myself at the data though, I just contributed to let my PC contribute to the project.
