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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by TheShittinator to c/guncadindex
 

@gsgmfg@fosscad.io did it, the madman. In conjunction with a kind user from the Index's Lemmy instance, he was able to restore almost all of the data from /r/fosscad. There's a bit of a loss in images, but the text -- the oh-so-valuable advice and discourse -- is all there.

And the best part: it's federated between both of our instances. There are now not one but two copies of the data: one local to his instance and one local to mine.

Find it here: !ark@fosscad.io

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[–] notsuspekt 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Holy fucking shit. I thought the reddit was reinstated at first but this is almost as good. Great work guys :D

[–] TheShittinator 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I may've clickbaited the title just a tad lol

EDIT: Fixt

[–] notsuspekt 2 points 1 month ago

I thank you for the correction, clickbait is for youtube, we just strive for the truth here.

[–] Scout339 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

TBH, this is better. We can now go back and link if we need to.

[–] Sig357z@fosscad.io 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed. Thank you to everyone for this.

[–] PepperPlus1_1211 4 points 1 month ago

thats awesome! Thank you all so much!

[–] Barri 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fucking HUGE

EDIT: Is there not a concern with the images being hosted on reddit? I'm sure their CDN uses some kind of access monitoring tool that will delete them after not having been accessed over n times in m days.

[–] TheShittinator 7 points 1 month ago

Images are mirrored and served from @gsgmfg@fosscad.io's instance. We're gucci

[–] JackBrush 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am so glad you saved all those retards asking if they can shoot their printed guns

[–] TheShittinator 3 points 1 month ago

It'd be a real shame if we let all those mistakes get memory holed

[–] Scout339 4 points 1 month ago

BEST SHIT EVER. Now we can even link stuff directly in old posts!

[–] WmHerrin 3 points 1 month ago

Looks great, I found all my posts

[–] wafflestomper 3 points 1 month ago

thank you so much

[–] someguy@fosscad.io 3 points 1 month ago

Awesome work. I'm grateful it wasn't all lost. I'm so glad to be rid of that website/horrendous app. Lenny/Mlem will take some getting used to but it can't possibly be worse than the first party reddit client (rip Apollo)

[–] Curious_Tinker 3 points 1 month ago

Amazing, glad to see this in the fediverse