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Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

TL;DR: all of the content of closed, centralized services will be lost in the long run. Choose the platform you contribute to wisely now instead of learning through more large data loss events later-on.

  • DessalinesA
    6·
    4 years ago

    We also have an issue to be able to do data exports, but I haven’t started working on it yet. Reddit only lets you export your (i think 1000?) most recent items.

    • AgreeableLandscape
      2·
      4 years ago

      I believe Reddit exports all of your data, but it takes days from requesting to getting your data package, and you can only do so once every 30 days. The API and site only display up to 1000 items.

    • tolacag
      2·
      4 years ago

      I wanted to ask a question about future plans regarding data exports. Are there any plans about being able to export/import entire communities in addition to just user-level data imports/exports? I’m thinking about starting my own instance at some point in the future, but I’m also thinking about starting a few communities on here in the meantime and would like to possibly migrate those communities (with all their posts/comments included) to my own instance when I feel I can commit more time to managing an instance of my own. I could see a feature like that being very useful for anyone else who’s considering migrating communities between instances, so I thought I’d ask if there were any plans for that being discussed.

      • DessalinesA
        3·
        4 years ago

        We haven’t really thought about community migration / import and export, it’d be as complicated and difficult as user migration would be from one server to another.

        Another difficult part about it would be the changed activity pub URL from a certain point in time… but it might be doable in some voy.

      • nutomicA
        2·
        4 years ago

        No concrete plans, but you can open an issue (if there isnt already one).