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Reddit habit is hard to break. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are archives of Reddit history, notably the Pushshift archive & current ongoing Archive Team archive. Much of the data can be searched on the Wayback Machine provided by the Internet Archive, although it's not as convenient.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would it be possible to somehow mirror the archive as a read only lemmy instance? Like... Funny@oldreddit so that it would be still searchable from lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I can look into doing this because it sounds like a genius idea. I'll have to work with a friend and see what we can pull together

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure it's possible. Someone would either need to transpile the current data format to match Lemmys', or just build a new front-end for it. Also, it might be considerably difficult to host something like this because there's just so much data. The Pushshift archive alone is 2TB, which is primarily just text.