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I want to add a community that is essentially the Lemmy version of an existing subreddit (r/mcmansionhell). Is this allowed?

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[โ€“] JasSmith@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah it is! Make as many subs as you want baby! This is the Wild West and we have blackjack and hookers! Make a McMansion magazine. Hell, make two!

[โ€“] farizer@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The content does not belong to reddit but to the community so I see no reason not to copy it

Heck you can even start crossposting content with credit.

[โ€“] jargoggles@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] whoharold@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Iโ€™ve been thinking about this, but Iโ€™ve heard the moderation is a lot of work.

[โ€“] notexecutive@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[โ€“] demvoter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried posting from Mastodon and it worked although the title didnโ€™t come through quite right.

I saw I think <:3

If you can change the title through lemmy, to have the "CityName, StateName - Tag" format, that would be really helpful!

[โ€“] levochemist@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So is there a way to view this on kbin or do I always have to view it on sh.itjust.works?

you should be able to view it wherever you use lemmy. they're all federated

[โ€“] rooster_butt@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://kbin.social/m/mcmansionhell@sh.itjust.works

This should work after searching the URL straight from kbin... but searching it right now gives me a 500 Server error. Seems like it's having technical issues.

I think It's because someone from Kbin needs to subscribe to it first. I just did that and the link works now. Though federation doesn't work retroactively, so the existing posts aren't showing up.

[โ€“] StickBugged@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been getting 500s all day so it's most likely the server not being able to keep up with the Reddit migration

[โ€“] em2@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

400s errors are server side. 500s errors are your side.

[โ€“] ray@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Other way around. 400s are client errors, 500s are server errors.

You can see the full list of http error codes and descriptions of what they mean here

[โ€“] em2@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Hah, thanks. Am a potato.

[โ€“] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's perfectly ok.

[โ€“] melonpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've seen it talked about a few times across different platforms (Hackernews) where people have pondered the idea of cloning old posts, keeping the poster name but to a non-existent account. Acting as both a way to populate a community and archive content away from Reddit's control.

I haven't seen any examples of this done yet, not sure if anyone has.

[โ€“] Aquifel@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It would be a bit of a project, but the most time-consuming part is already done. /r/datahoarder has a backup of reddit comment/post history that goes from the beginning of reddit up to March of 2023 (text only, no media). It's compressed down to about 2TB in size, but already in json format and anyone can download it, would just need some work to convert that to a format a fediverse instance could work with and somehow inject it into a new instance.

[โ€“] ikiru@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you mean they have a backup of comment and post history from /r/datahoarder or a backup of literally all reddit?

[โ€“] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally all of reddit. The entire platform.

[โ€“] ikiru@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow. That's really impressive. I really enjoyed that sub.

Also surprising it's only 2TB.

[โ€“] ram@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It's JSON so it's only text, and it's compressed, but that's still 1 trillion characters assuming it's UTF-16. I've not actually taken a look myself at the data though, I just contributed to let my PC contribute to the project.

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