… go through your ‘top posts’, copy & paste the text into a doc, post it here, then delete it. Let reddit’s loss be lemmy’s gain!

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    the one thing im worried about with all these people deleting their reddit content is the loss of so much valuable information such as support fixing a niche tech problem; that was the special content that reddit had that no other place had. With enough time and growth I hope the Fediverse will become greater than reddit ever was

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      Yep this is arguably one of the worst parts, the potential loss of solutions. There’s been plenty of times a Google search has brought me to a Reddit thread where 1 guy had the answers

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      There are still great avenues to search for niche tech issues other than Reddit. Spiceworks, LTT, Lawrence Systems - I usually have better results there. Reddits tech solutions are usually closer to an ELI5, but the other tech avenues are better for the tech-literate

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      I’m planning to re-post my more useful comments on my website, with enough context for them to be (hopefully) findable.

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      Exactly, I’ve not really contributed much in the way of original posts but was thinking about deleting all my comments then thought… imagine if there’s some really helpful advice that’s going to vanish, then expanded that to all the people migrating. Plus, it would be a big help with increasing content here.

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        Or just leave the old posts there and forget about Reddit. Reddit isn’t going down because we left, it was never going to, regardless of how many thousands out of their hundreds of millions users leave. I don’t see the point in flooding this place with stale content personally.

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    We don’t need to recycle content. We got enough blackjack and hookers to make our own.

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      You know, I’m a little disappointed that http://blackjackandhooke.rs/ isn’t registered. $100 a year is a little rich for my blood, though. (I also don’t own my own .Inc domain because the bloodsuckers want a couple thousand a year for it).

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    I’d rather people not delete their content at all, tbh. Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.

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      Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.

      I’m only hearing positives here. The quality of Google’s search results have been going downhill. This might be the kick in the ass they need.

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      Let’s be honest, google search has been turning to crap for a long time. I would appreciate google search being destroyed to the point a new player comes along or they get their search back to 2000-2005 quality.

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        Thought I was going slowly mad, good to have confirmation that it’s not just me who thinks google search has gone to complete shit. I can’t remember the last time a “-” modifier actually worked.

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          Once search switched to boxing people in based off what they and other people search for, it really went downhill, and then they started directing search more and more towards add revenue. Then they removed Boolean followed by continuing to make it suck. Then they removed their company pledge to not be evil.

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        Losing reddit search results would actually reduce the quality of all the competitors too.

        Except for AI models that have already been trained on the data before it was deleted. So if all the useful information on reddit is deleted, we’ll essentially make ChatGPT the only search engine that actually does anything.

        Just hopping from one near-monopoly to another at that point.

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      It would be neat if there would be a script that would:

      1. Crawl through your top Reddit posts
      2. Copy the content and make an identical post on Lemmy
      3. Overwrite the post on Reddit with a link to the Lemmy post
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        That’s definitely possible, the API of both Reddit and Lemmy are developed enough for it. It would just be a case of someone taking the time to sit down and make it.

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          I think the biggest hurdle might be the fact that not every subreddit as an equivalent Lemmy community.

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      Definitely a valid concern, that. Ultimately we all need to do what we feel is right for us, the thought of reddit profitting from the content produced by their users even after they’ve left really rankles me though. It’s unfair (though that’s life, I guess).

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    If you’re so inclined, Reddit User to SQLite is a project that uses Reddit API to save as many posts and comments by a user to a SQLite Database. It then has suggestions about a good way to view the data in the web browser as well.

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      I know it’s wildly unrealistic, but how amazing would it be if someone scraped all of reddit’s text and put it as an archive… would waybackmachine do that?

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        There is a torrent out there because some company did that up to March 2023. I forgot the name, but it should be findable.

        But be warned, the whole thing is 2TB.

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          That’s very cool. If I didn’t have multiple SSDs full of the animations I made (that I stupidly made in far higher definition than necessary) I’d swag it. Maybe now’s the time to work through it, compressing it all so I can be a keeper of the entirety of reddit!

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        I tried to export my gdpr data the day I joined lemmy. I have yet to see it be processed. Inouldnt be surprised if they never process it.

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          Yep it would not surprise me either. They’ve demonstrated repeatedly as a company that they are willing to operate in an underhanded way.

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      I just requested my data from them under that Euro law thing, they emailed me a zip with what I assume is my 10+ years of post history, isn’t that all you need to do?

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        Not sure, but the data they keep on you can be very different than the stuff you post and comment on. The company the data keeps is stuff like geolocation, liberal/conservative swing based off of upvote/downvote history, what you sub too and how that correlates with places you go.

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    But my top reddit comments are mostly witty remarks that mean nothing without context, do I also have to post the setups by other people so they’d still be funny?