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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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[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It didn't stop the AI people so why should it stop you. There's already an instance where you can request a sub https://lemmit.online/ but it looks like it's just posts.

[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This should be extended to also mirror subreddits and comments with their upvotes. The system could create fake users to achieve this. I guess as the 3rd party API is now expensive the mirroring needs to be done from a backup.

Additionally it would be ideal to have the posts mirrored also on a specific community on any instance. This way the new communities can decide if they want to start from scratch or from their Reddit content.

[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It would be ideal to just mirror all subreddits, posts and comments from Reddit to the fitting community in Lemmy. Comments might be tricky, but should be possible by a knowledgeable programmer on his own instance.

[–] Gilles_D@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Ha, not sure if I read you right or it’s just my reading, but if you think “coms” is somewhat inappropriate, I got news for you regarding “subs”…

[–] Panamanap@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Will it work to find content on Lemmy easily by adding "Lemmy" to your Google query at the end?

Content is the second step I think...in my opinion copy what you deem useful und unproblematic?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

When you use Google you simply can request a cached copy of that site. Or use a link rewriter add-on that turns reddit.com into teddit.net