this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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I recently came across a torrent that seems to be an archive of Reddit. It got me thinking if it would be possible to make it locally browsable. However, I also considered the possibility that someone might have already addressed this by creating a public Lemmy instance, enabling the content to be accessible from any federated instance.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I can actually see some merit to a lemmy API accessible reddit corpus. it would be interesting to reference old reddit info in a lemmy compatible way with zero reference to reddit itself.

doing so for the entire corpus properly (link fixups, etc) would be... challenging, but doable.

[–] graphito@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They only copy posts afaict. I subscribed to some of their communities but unsubscribed rather quickly as the post feed without comments usually has little value.

[–] nydas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Letting the LLMs source from their for free, completely invalidating the proposed licensing model at Reddit.

[–] vamp07@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I’m at a loss as to why anybody wouldnwant this in the first place.