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?

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        well, it’s kinda lost for humanity if it only gathers dust on your harddisk and isn’t accessible for anyone…

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          Hence “hosted elsewhere”. Download and decentralize.

          I should have specified delete everything from Reddit. Don’t let them profit off your posts. Do share your knowledge.

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          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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      That information is what leads back to reddit and creates new users. And the more obscure the info the higher reddit results will pop up in searches. Search results even put less priority on even forums that contain information in favor of years old reddit results being promoted to the top.

      If the goal is to cut off reddit and decrease its influence then deleting is the way forward. It is the one singular act that actually has an impact.

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      I was close to deleting it. I’m also subbed to data hording and this is the opposite of what we do there. If someone is searching for something obscure as 3D printing issue on an Artillery 1, I rather it show up on lemmy, not reddit.

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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!

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    You can request all your reddit data from reddit. It takes a week or two, but then you’ll get a link where you can download a zip file with a bunch of CSVs with all your comments, posts, up votes, everything.

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      They are across from multiple subs. From obscure 3D printers to steps to bring pets to Taiwan, there has been over 12 years’ worth of my time spent there.

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        Well, you could ask the lemmy repost bot to make reposts of all of the subs you’ve posted here, on Lemmy, but ot only takes posts from today and maybe a few days back, reposts them here, and than just carries on reposting from that point on. It doesn’t actually repost retroactively.

        Though you could probably speak to the dev that actually runs that instance, maybe he can make a bot mod that does the same, but with users and does it retroactively. It’s worth a shot IMO 🤷.

        !requests@lemmit.online

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    Probably not yet.

    But i bet post & comment migration and archive is going to be important for many users that switch platforms over the comming months.