I’ve received this message on my inbox just a few hours after deleting my posts (all of them) last night.
I’m just glad to know where they stand.
And yes, I know that a lot of people have unsavory views about that subreddit, but I guess there’s just no accounting for taste.
There is an absolutely massive history of polandball comics that are only on /r/polandball, though. Some were pretty good.
If one were to keep things really legally correct, it’d be nice to get the original submitter’s approval to repost them here, and maybe this time around establish that on [email protected] that the stuff that gets submitted has to be a Creative Commons license or something like that, so that if something like this happens again they can be reposted.
Perhaps someone could scrape the content into new communities.
Ah, apparently a lot of Reddit history has already been archived.
https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/
The historical submissions to /r/polandball:
https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/files/polandball_submissions.zst
The historical comments on /r/polandball:
https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/files/polandball_comments.zst
That will have the list of submissions, albeit not the actual images.
Could probably script something up with gallery-dl or similar on that submission set to pull down the images, though. At least the ones that are still online at the submitted locations.
There are people who are banging together a Reddit subreddit -> kbin magazine bot, which apparently was made initially functional in the last few hours, but I think it’s aimed at new stuff, rather than dredging up old stuff.
https://kbin.social/m/BotIt
I’m not actually sure if there’s a reasonable way to fully-iterate over all old content on a subreddit. Given that Spez appears intent on monetizing old content that he’s locked up, I’d kind of assume that even if there is, Reddit is probably aiming to make it as difficult as possible.