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.
Just catching up on old questions.
IMO, bad idea to randomly import old content. It just wastes storage space (and if the original content is hosted elsewhere, the nightmare of dead links - as the imgur content being purged is demonstrating in real time…)
Personally, I’ve taken the route of selectively posting some older content from old subreddits to new communities and letting the community grow organically. I think quality always beat out quanity, but that’s just me. I’d rather have 100 members that actually like the community’s focus and engage and actually be a community, than 1 million dead lurkers or dead accounts that are just “hanging around” (like I’m still subscribed on Reddit to many subs that I haven’t visited in over 4 years)
I’m definitely supportive of that!
Most NSFW subs act kinda like a club early at night - lots of people hanging around, not many people actually dancing. If nobody starts dancing, people trickle out.
Original content is better, but in the meantime imported content acts as a placeholder, and helps give folks an idea of what to post too!
I understand the desire to do this but I would prefer we didn’t. Would rather cultivate a community around original content rather than possibly getting a reputation as a reddit mirror.
I second this. You can’t just take someones nudes or artwork and repost them on a different site in order to boost your stats/traffic. That’s scummy as hell and will drive away content creators which are what makes reddit porn special.
Don’t cater to the audience, cater to the creators. The audience will then come.
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Interesting. Joshua’s message to one of my subs is what informed me of lemmynsfw.
Thanks @joshuaacasey@lemmy.world , your method works 👍
we gotta start somewhere though! NSFW subs are filled with lurkers, some of whom start posting eventually - without any content (original or not), nobody will come!
I like where you’re coming from with this.
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.
