Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they’re being made, and “archive” them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it’s being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a “closed” lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy users to still be updated about and discuss any potential content that gets left behind.
Thoughts? It’s probably iffy copyright-wise, but I think I can square my conscience with it.
I think that would be great. There’s a wealth of posts and comments that users have made that deserve to be preserved and shared. It would help Lemmy grow and just be a good policy to make sure Reddit doesn’t control access to the content those users generated.
As long as you link or referce back to the post and user I don’t see how that would be legally or morally problematic. It’s all public anyway, but IANAL so this this not legal advice, just my thoughts.