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What are your thoughts on spinning up a fediverse instance with archived reddit posts? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Khalic@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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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?

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[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Khalic@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

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