Probably illegal, but in all of this talk of “reddit has historic posts that are important”, could we export all of the posts from r/FMHY and import them here?
Technically, we could scrape them at least. Legally dubious. But perhaps if there attribution to reddit for those imported posts it could be fine?
Reddit has a functioning API for now. You could just use this.
Somebody is going to make a read-only Reddit clone instance at some point, hopefully in a way that’s hard to sue. If somebody wants to pay for it I would set it up.
Reddit freely admits the content posted to their servers remains the property of the poster. So they would have a hard time legally in that avenue.
If you think about it, it seems like to maintain their section 203 protections they would have to agree with that stipulation. If they claimed ownership of the content posted and displayed, they likely would be liable for copyright infringement, violations of worldwide pornography or obscenitiy laws etc and would have to then have to become the content curators to avoid being sued into oblivion. IIRC the website is banned in certain countries for that reason.
