It would be a good way to fill the fediverse with useful data.
Of course, there could be legal implications, technical issues (attribution, etc), ethical dilemmas, etc.
I still think this should be discussed at least. The data is public, and dumps of reddit can be found pretty easily.
So what are your thoughts on the matter?
What’s the goal?
If the goal is to have people come here instead of reddit when they Google a support question, then that might work. But those people will come for their one question, get their answer or not, and leave.
If the goal is to build up a community and attract users then it’s much better to have organic content people can engage with than stale content copied from elsewhere.
My thought is that this knowledge needs to be archived and available, to prevent it from being taken hostage by a platform.
If it becomes a a good replacement for a site:reddit.com search, then even better, I’ve seen many users that are quite distressed by this. It’s great for the protest and highlights a “vulnerability” in our knowledge banks
I think it would generally be nice to have, but it’s probably copyright infringement of the original authors and after it gets federated a bunch of servers end up hosting it. Probably best not to give people a reason to come after kbin and lemmy.
I’m no legal scholar, but isn’t the content public? You can attribute and link to the original reddit post for example.
I would definitely not recommend using lemmy or kbin for that, but there are other options, using the fediverse, etc.
So I think the answer is, it varies. Like people are using the GDPR to argue that Reddit must delete their posts and not retain their content, and I think that’s the correct answer.
I am planning on doing this but only for my own Reddit posts and comments. I’ll recreate my side of the convo in the fediverse and delete it from Reddit so any useful advice or interesting tidbits from me, people will have to come here to discover.
That said, there is a lot of useful content from Redditors who are no longer around (some from well known people who have since passed on, for example). It’s a shame we can’t move that content over here but privacy and copyright laws can get very complicated. Better to do things the right way.
I’ve seen the suggestion of sorting your own Reddit posts by top, then copying them into a text file to distribute to other places. Can’t be against any law to reuse your own stuff.
Of course if you’ve deleted your posts and account that may not be poss…oh wait, thanks for bringing all the deleted stuff back, Steve. Asshole.
Could be a good transition tool. Restrict posting and comments to just mods/bots. Treat it like an archive. Users can link to a post and continue the discussion on their instance
