“The Reddit Trick” in Google searches has been my go-to for the last several years. It’s almost become a prerequisite for the search engine to even function at this point.
However, due to Reddit’s impressively thorough bed-shitting, and the in-progress mass migration off of it, it might be a good idea to have some redundancies in place for that weird, digital, usage-case-specific Library of Alexandria.
I feel a little funny about simply copying/pasting useful info threads off of Reddit and into their applicable Lemmy communities (also what are we calling subreddits here on Lemmy? Communities doesn’t quite cut it because subreddits is shortened to subs while communities is shortened to… well), at least without having the original posters who did the work involved.
If it’s something common-knowledgy, like a Life Pro Tip, sure, it’s fair game, re-post away. But if it’s stuff that actually required any R&D, what do we then? Is there an ethical or moral consensus on that kind of thing, or is that still being built in discussions here?
P.S. - I vote we call “subs” here on Lemmy “lubs”
EDIT: lubs is a joke, y’all
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.
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.
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”…
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.
If someone still has a reddit account and can post 20 of the best Hobbydrama posts, they would be my hero. That could keep me reading for a couple days right there
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?
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.
