I’m curious, since one of the first casualties of the Great Reddit API Debacle was Pushshift, whether there’s already any sort of equivalent for Lemmy.

If nothing else, I could imagine a pushshift-like “instance” whose actual purpose is just archiving everything from the instances it’s federated with.

  • WingyEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    some kind of api aggregator could probably work but i don’t think there is one yet

  • MedicareForSomeEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    There isn’t but hopefully the lemmy API will be functional enough on its own that we don’t need something like pushshift.

    • FaceDeerOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s not really the “functionality” of Pushshift that I’m interested in, it’s the datahoarding aspect - a separate repository storing the content of the site so that if someday it goes offline it’ll be preserved.