Reddit has been banning smaller porn subreddits in preparation for its upcoming public IPO. As a result, we have the opportunity to import the content of those subreddits from the archives.
Reddit has been banning smaller porn subreddits in preparation for its upcoming public IPO. As a result, we have the opportunity to import the content of those subreddits from the archives.
I’ve just looked at those archives, and a lot of them are like https://i.redd.it/5b6137vzov981.jpg which is just a deleted image. There’s a lot of imgur images too, so I imagine they’re 404 city too.
I imagine the ArchiveTeam backups actually include the images, which would definitely be preferable.
But I like the basic idea. Maybe even have them in a bot, so we’re not dumping 900000 posts in one go.