depends, a lot of whats on reddit came from elsewhere, sometimes from years before. I dont feel any need to credit reddit for anything like that I grab, if its new and a post unique to the site, I bring it over as an ARCHIVE and link it.
It's a really good idea to archive it because there's no reason to believe reddit will exist in two years.
that is my thinking, I also mainly post about tech and often research or FOSS, so there is very little I feel I can't at least archive. When it comes to more creative work, id try to avoid bringing it over. Still kind of not sure about stuff like personal finance advice.
All that said, when it comes to text, its now trivial to re-write it.
Archiving is a good idea, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions on a good guide or am I making it too complicated?
all else fails
COPY/PASTE title with ARCHIVE as a the heading in the body.
Thank you!
I've seen a few bots that literally just link to reddit which defeats the whole purpose of moving here???
With that in mind, I wouldn't mind if you had a backlog of reddit content you previously downloaded, because again... the point in moving to this platform was to stop giving reddit money. Like, yeah sure if you don't post to reddit, you're not providing an incentive for others to stay on the site but if enough people go to reddit for content, we're just giving them money anyway via ads.
I'm sure the majority of users won't care regardless.
I see nothing unethical about it. Reddit is mainly a link aggregator which means most of the content is not actually hosted by them. In these cases Reddit merely posts links to sites that host said content, and they usually credit the original creators if it's not apparent from the post itself. I see nothing wrong with crossposting from Reddit as long as you also include the username of the poster if it's a text post, or using the same source citations as they do.
Edit: others have pointed out using archive.org. I'd recommend that as well.
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