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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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[โ€“] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

  1. Why? My comments at a contribution to a public discussion, saved just for me they do little for their original purpose.

  2. given the nature of Lemmy, perhaps you could run your own instance that you could use to fetch every thread you've participated in, and back up that way?

[โ€“] megane_kun@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

In my response to someone, I already expressed concern about their long-term visibility--which is the reason why I even thought of doing this. I can't do anything about "contribution to a public discussion" if those very discussions pretty much disappear. This might be showing my lack of knowledge about what federation actually is, and if it is, it's pretty much on me.

For the second point, I already addressed it in the OP and in one of my responses. I'm pretty much not a programmer and my knowledge about it is pretty much writing a "hello world" program.

[โ€“] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Follow-up, I peeked at your profile and I think I've found what you're intent on preserving, posting here to keep the record alive:

I remember when I first heard the rumours and I immediately thought of how sensitive one's anal linings would be to perceive Morse code via a butt plug. Then pondered upon the max possible bandwidth of buttplug-mediated information transfer. Finally, I thought about how to send back information via rythmic anal clenching.

Only then did I conclude that it's probably easier to get better at chess.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/3662094

PS, I could be wrong, but I think your comments should continue to exist through the federated record of other instances. I don't think they purge their history whenever a server goes offline.

[โ€“] megane_kun@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Got me!

I am still into that research. Yes. Research. For science!