I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

  • paleowannabe@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Would it be possible to somehow mirror the archive as a read only lemmy instance? Like… Funny@oldreddit so that it would be still searchable from lemmy?

    • OneWithTheCore@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I can look into doing this because it sounds like a genius idea. I’ll have to work with a friend and see what we can pull together

    • CuriousOtter@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m sure it’s possible. Someone would either need to transpile the current data format to match Lemmys’, or just build a new front-end for it. Also, it might be considerably difficult to host something like this because there’s just so much data. The Pushshift archive alone is 2TB, which is primarily just text.