There are archived here: https://the-eye.eu/redarcs

And some tools here:

https://github.com/Yakabuff/redarc

I've grabbed a few archives but not spent anytime checking I can read them yet.

Hoard and post when relevant imo.

I agree that it's one of my biggest laments with the downfall of Reddit. Whenever I would have a question or a problem, googling it with "reddit" at the end would yield actually useful results from real people as opposed to garbage AI generated articles of what it thinks I want.

Reposting all of the content onto Lemmy makes no sense though. It would almost be better if someone just made a full site mirror/archive copy that is able to be indexed by Google. I know wayback machine is a thing, but you have to first search for your Reddit link and THEN navigate to web archive and plug it in...and then hope a page was actually saved before the shutdown.

Also, this federation concept is neat I suppose...but one of the big downsides is that we can't just paste "lemmy" at the end and get a conversation we are looking for. Because every instance has a different title/website name.

Hate to break it to you, but communities is already the default. No need to shorten it or copy reddit usages. If you need to shorten, c/ is good enough because everyone knows what you mean, if you aren't willing to type out a word.

As time passes the info on Reddit will age out of significance faster than you might expect. It might be an archive, but the more important thing is where content is being created. Search engines weight for age as an important factor.

Communities should be called slices! Lemmings don’t often congregate in groups, but when they do, it’s called a “slice”! It’s not at all dependent on the “sub” nomenclature from Reddit, it’s our own thing!

Ha, not sure if I read you right or it’s just my reading, but if you think “coms” is somewhat inappropriate, I got news for you regarding “subs”…

It didn't stop the AI people so why should it stop you. There's already an instance where you can request a sub https://lemmit.online/ but it looks like it's just posts.

Maybe someone could create a read-only (at least for posts) lemmy instance that archives the most important info subs. There are also cached pages for private subs, which could maybe be helpful.

I'm happy enough just calling them Lemmy communities.

When you use Google you simply can request a cached copy of that site. Or use a link rewriter add-on that turns reddit.com into teddit.net

Will it work to find content on Lemmy easily by adding "Lemmy" to your Google query at the end?

Content is the second step I think...in my opinion copy what you deem useful und unproblematic?

Maybe someone could start a public list of redditors who explicitly give (or refuse) permission/encouragement for any of their comments to be preserved on other sites.

sublemmy / subs. easy enough.

It would be ideal to just mirror all subreddits, posts and comments from Reddit to the fitting community in Lemmy. Comments might be tricky, but should be possible by a knowledgeable programmer on his own instance.

If we're taking a haphazard approach then I feel like Lemmitbot is already doing a good amount of work with posts at least

If we're talking about something comprehensive, I think a good idea if you're able is to make a website to act as a web portal for stuff on Archive.org or reddit archive websites. Then just fill that website to the brim with SEO. You could even include reddit in the name or tags somehow to maintain the original reddit trick.

Would that be ethical? I'd say so, you'd just be rigging search engines to include an archive in the results. And every websites abuses SEO, that's why the reddit trick exists to begin with.

the various flavors of the fediverse call their communities different things. trying to use "subs" probably isnt going to go mainstream