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Preserving Reddit's knowledge on Lemmy, and the ethical questions that raises (lemm.ee)
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"The Reddit Trick" in Google searches has been my go-to for the last several years. It's almost become a prerequisite for the search engine to even function at this point.

However, due to Reddit's impressively thorough bed-shitting, and the in-progress mass migration off of it, it might be a good idea to have some redundancies in place for that weird, digital, usage-case-specific Library of Alexandria.

I feel a little funny about simply copying/pasting useful info threads off of Reddit and into their applicable Lemmy communities (also what are we calling subreddits here on Lemmy? Communities doesn't quite cut it because subreddits is shortened to subs while communities is shortened to... well), at least without having the original posters who did the work involved.

If it's something common-knowledgy, like a Life Pro Tip, sure, it's fair game, re-post away. But if it's stuff that actually required any R&D, what do we then? Is there an ethical or moral consensus on that kind of thing, or is that still being built in discussions here?

P.S. - I vote we call "subs" here on Lemmy "lubs"

EDIT: lubs is a joke, y'all

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's great the site has been archived, but the problem is that Google can't crawl or index the posts. So if you're searching something in Google, this won't help you find the conversation you're looking for.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah.

But if knowledgeable users have access to archives they can use that as sacred scriptures of ancient wisdom to guide and inform new communities in the ways of the old gods.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh...I mean that's not what people have a tendency to need when they are googling random things. Suppose I want to hear a conversation about how to replace a specific part in my specific model of clothes dryer. I'm not necessarily interested in subscribing to appliance repair communities. I just want to find a conversation about that answer in the moment.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think current solution is grab r/appliancerepair or whatever archive and search/grep it.

I was more meaning if the die hard c/repairappliance guys had access to the r/repairappliance sub archive they could quickly retrieve and post a repevant 5yr old Reddit comment for a new OP in the way that one may search though a meme or gif reaction folder.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But mass spamming communities with old Reddit comment archives isn't a good idea at all. BUT I suppose if someone had their own personal Lemmy instance and were to post a total archive of Reddit it could work. But that seems like a massive strain on the resources of one person's ability to host content.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I don't mean mass spam.

I won't be archiving Reddit, but I am grabbing a few subs.

If someine posts a question about a something obscure, like a particular old appliance repair as mentioned and a someone has a relevant post archived it may be helpful to post a quote, or link to a pastebin alongside a comment.

Much of the useful content on Reddit is often found by clicking on a recent thread where someone has helpfully linked to an older, more complete, answer.

I don't mean spam c/tea with pics from r/tea for Lemmy karma but if someone has a question about the mineral content of 1960's F1 yixing clay and I've got an excellent archived post from some yixing expert 8yrs ago on r/tea covering it beautifully, as I have an archive and tools set up to search it, I'd consider posting it.