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How to Archive One's Own Posts and Comments? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago by megane_kun@lemm.ee to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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Not exactly new to Lemmy, but my search-fu has been noobish at best.

Lemm.ee would be shutting down at the end of this month, and while I've already moved to a new instance, I'm yet to do any archiving on my posts and comments. Is there an automated way to save my posts and comments.

Ideally, I'd want the archive to be:

a full copy of all the posts including
- the full OP text
  - any embedded images will be saved and included in the OP
  - outward links are left as is
- all of the comments, including any deleted ones (deleted by the user and deleted by mods/admins)
a full copy of the comments including
- the full OP text of the thread in which the comment is made
- the full tree up to the top-level comment
- optionally including any deleted comments in this tree

Is this already a thing? I don't think I have the skills and the time to make one before June 23 (one week before the instance shuts down on June 30), so that is not an option. I doubt anyone can make it upon short notice either.

Is there any other method I can do this without resorting to manual saving? And if I have no choice other than to save each and every post and comment manually? How should I be doing it?

If anyone can suggest anywhere else I can crosspost this for better visibility, that will be welcome as well.

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

because nobody needed such a thing until now?

I mean, as long as the bigger instances (that are also federated with lemm.ee, e.g. lemmy.world) stay, then your content is already "archived". Unless you choose to delete your account explicitly (which probably some instances will ignore anyway), your content will stay.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Good point. I am actually not so certain if my posts and comments will remain visible after lemm.ee goes, so I am thinking of doing this as a backup.