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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 19_84@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thanks anyway for looking at my project 🙂

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use Reddit for reference through RedLib. I could see how having an on-premise repository would be helpful. How many subs were scrapped in this 3.28 TB backup? Reason for asking, I’d have little interest in say News or Politics, but there are some good subs that deal with Linux, networking, selfhosting, some old subs I used to help moderate like r/degoogle, r/deAmazon, etc.

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    • 19_84@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the torrent has data for the top 40,000 subs on reddit. thanks to watchful1 splitting the data by subreddit, you can download only the subreddit you want from the torrent 🙂

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      • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sweet! I’ll check it out.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Say what you will about Reddit, but there is tons of information on that platform that’s not available anywhere else.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    :-/

    You can definitely mine a bit of gold out of that pile of turds. But you could also go to the library and receive a much higher ratio of signal to noise.

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    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This one specific bug in this one niche library has probably not been written about in a book, and even if it has I doubt that book is in my local library, and even if it is I doubt I can fucking find it

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      • mirisgaiss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        obscure problems almost always have reddit comments as search results, and there’s no forums or blogs with any of it anymore. be nice to have around solely for that… though I’m sure if shit like /pics or whatever else was removed it could get significantly smaller…

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