I have contributed to a ton of (free) information that was helpful and didn’t have the heart to delete all my posts that I spent days/months doing. Is there an easy way to bring all those over here?
Make a GDPR data request to reddit. You’ll get all your comments and posts and a ton of other stuff in CSV format.
Then the hand-wavy part: use the Lemmy API and write a utility to post things.
But definitely get your data.
Just requested it. The link for it is here.
Thank you for not deleting your old posts! I’ve seen too many people saying they have used tools to delete all their old Reddit posts.
Information lost is information lost, it doesn’t matter if you like the platform or not.
It does matter. They’re not going to profit off my submissions by injecting ads when someone searches for a solution. I’m not going to contribute to their financial gain.
It’s not lost data if it’s documented elsewhere. Download your data and delete everything.
well, it’s kinda lost for humanity if it only gathers dust on your harddisk and isn’t accessible for anyone…
Then encourage people repost it somewhere else. And Facebook also started out as only a social media company but now is integrated into so many aspects of our lives and in some countries the default messaging service.
So depending on the view deleting content is also for humanity to try and avoid the emergence of another data mining mega corp.
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Once you get them together, consider doing the POSSE thing and posting them to a blog first. That way you can retain full control of them and still spread them around wherever they may be useful. There’s even an ActivityPub module for WordPress!
POSSE?
Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
Plenty of bots already migrating content, see about making a bot do the moving for you.
You can still use the authless Reddit API to scrape your old posts. Just add “.json” to the end of your URL, like so: https://www.reddit.com/user/jaschen/submitted.json
To get the next page, add “?after=AFTER” to the end after “.json”, where AFTER is the value you got from the preceding request. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with Lemmy’s API, so you’ll need to solve that yourself.
