What’s stopping us from using the api to post all of reddit here in a massive one-time merger?

Obviously the Lemmy devs would have to do it, but would there be legal issues? I think it would solve most of the problems with Lemmy, really.

  • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think what would be best is just doing it once, so that we can access all the content, but we move forward as a separate website, what do you think of that?

    • 7heo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I tell you what, a single 20TB hard drive goes for around 500 bucks these days. You go buy one, and you start scraping. Let’s see how that goes.

      Edit: if you actually do that, you better prioritize your subreddits properly, because I wouldn’t be surprised if you can’t even fit a single subreddit on there, if you go for a popular one.

      Edit 2: There’s a joke to be made, here: if you use ZFS, you might actually fit reddit entirely on a single hard drive, given the sheer amount of reposts… :D

      • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Honestly, I wouldn’t know where to begin, but if someone would be willing to help me, I don’t see why not!

          • Communist@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I might be able to do it for just my favorite communities, but yeah the big 20tb issue taking weeks is a dealbreaker for one person doing ALL of it.

            But if there was a way to make it easy to mirror a subreddit for an individual who owns a lemmy community… then maybe we could get something to work.