like we could use gdpr to upload post data of a user and then make corresponding communities for the top 10000 subreddits and just use a ‘::’ to represent a user who hasnt reclaimed their account yet

  • CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There already dumps of all reddit posts, but uploading them to lemmy would be really bad. Tons of karma farmer bs, countless repost of the 100 most prolific memes, so much porn… and i haven’t even started with the massive burden that would hit the federation, hundreds of Terrabytes that need to be stored sonewhere…

  • mvuviA
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    2 years ago

    I know there are tons of Reddit crowd-sourced threads on important topics. Answers to both complex and simple technical stuff, historical puzzles, local hacks etc.

    But that is likely on internet archive and other data-hoarding spaces.

    The main way, as I see it, that we can sustain this fediverse community is upload quality discussion (which I am liking so far) and seek to create content through comments, posts, and other ways people know how.

    I feel your desire to see that Reddit content available to the fediverse but I also think it may take away from the focus on current contributions and interactions.