so i was thinking, sure reddit is killing of it’s api but that doesn’t stop people from emulating reddit, and scraping it
wouldn’t a good compromise for people who still want the content of reddit, which are mainly the lurkers who don’t need to interact anyways, wouldn’t it be nice to have a sort of activitypub reddit proxy which enables you to see reddit posts on your lemmy client? sure it might be in a little legal gray zone, but who are they gonna sue haha if revanced is still legal because you compile it yourself, I’m sure it’ll be easy enough to find a way for this to be legal as well
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but who are they gonna sue haha
The admin of the instance that provides such a proxy probably.
I’m a bit conflicted. On one hand I’d like to see reddit die, on the other hand I wish I had a backup of subreddits such as r/HFY. Maybe it would be enough to just dump the current archive into an instance and let various lemmy communities that map the subreddits grow from there.
There is a project to archive all Reddit before the API change.
More info:
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiveteam_has_saved_over_108_billion_reddit/
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/reddit-grab