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Migrating communities from one platform to another is a lot more complicated than most people assume. Cold start problem: initially the new community has no co

Migrating communities from one platform to another is a lot more complicated than most people assume. Cold start problem: initially the new community has no content archive and only a few users, most people are lazy, it takes time to relearn the ui and set up subscriptions(there is no good way to export/import subscriptions and saved posts) Transfer of moderation: some people are going to take the opportunity to seize ownership of the new community, and the community will split up Discoverability: reddit gets a lot of user traffic from google since google search quality has gone down and people add site:reddit.com to their search We need a new form of social media where users and communities can easily export their content and data. A reddit clone with a similar UI is not enough.

notTooFarGone 3y ago
I was just thinking: Why not a reddit clone with the API data and some sort of claim for accounts via proof of ownership? Just make them comment a special string on reddit to claim your account on the new clone. Clone content and subreddits of the last X days. Shouldn't be toooo hard. Maybe use the reddit links for images and video for the first POC until you can serve them yourself. Moderators could claim their subreddits, people dont lose too much - maybe also migrate your subreddit subscriptions. Sounds like a 1 month job for a good team.
- joseda-hg 3y ago
  I'd wager site cloning in that scale to be expressly forbidden by Reddit's TOS, I can't see why they wouldn't
  - compscigirl 3y ago
    Isn’t there a 2TB dump of Reddit posts and comments as of February 2023? Couldn’t you that instead of the API to seed your site’s content as a workaround to the TOS?
tester457 3y ago
> We need a new form of social media where users and communities can easily export their content and data. A reddit clone with a similar UI is not enough. If a site allowed imports how would it work? It could work for all of a user's top level tweets, but for something with threads like reddit I don't see any solution.

notTooFarGone 3y ago

I was just thinking: Why not a reddit clone with the API data and some sort of claim for accounts via proof of ownership? Just make them comment a special string on reddit to claim your account on the new clone. Clone content and subreddits of the last X days. Shouldn't be toooo hard. Maybe use the reddit links for images and video for the first POC until you can serve them yourself. Moderators could claim their subreddits, people dont lose too much - maybe also migrate your subreddit subscriptions. Sounds like a 1 month job for a good team.

joseda-hg 3y ago
I'd wager site cloning in that scale to be expressly forbidden by Reddit's TOS, I can't see why they wouldn't
- compscigirl 3y ago
  Isn’t there a 2TB dump of Reddit posts and comments as of February 2023? Couldn’t you that instead of the API to seed your site’s content as a workaround to the TOS?

tester457 3y ago

> We need a new form of social media where users and communities can easily export their content and data. A reddit clone with a similar UI is not enough. If a site allowed imports how would it work? It could work for all of a user's top level tweets, but for something with threads like reddit I don't see any solution.