Hey all,

I know many of us have avoided Reddit entirely, while others have been working to ween themselves off the toxic bot nest. Speaking for myself, I know I’ve had a few technical problems whose solutions were only found on Reddit.

The migration dust has settled a bit and it’s pretty clear that bots mass migrating subreddits isn’t the direction the kbin/Lemmy community wants to go.

I propose that these explicit recommendations be mentioned at signup and as part of the user’s profile page:

  • If Reddit is the easiest to access or only source of information you’re searching for during regular browsing, please consider reposting that information to the relevant Fediverse community.
  • Begin these title of these posts with “[RX]” so that Fediverse users know why a seemingly random post has been added.
  • Please tag these posts with “RDX” (or “RedditExtraction”) and the subreddit name it came from for easy filtering.
  • This is especially important for technical and detailed posts, as liberating this information will prevent it from disappearing at a corporate goon’s whim, and it helps other users transition off Reddit.
  • Use whatever method you prefer for the format of the body. It’s more important that the info is extracted than any rigid format be followed. You can:
    • Link to the original Reddit post.
    • Copy-paste the text, only mentioning the authors’ screen names.
    • Simply summarizing the info.

General Example:

  • You search Fediverse posts for a solution to a computer problem, but find nothing.
  • A search from Google yields nothing useful except a post on r/TechSupport.
  • Create a new thread on kbin/Lemmy titled:
    • [RDX] (the question you searched)
    • Description of problem, including why it was hard to find.
    • Description of solution, preferably including some indication of time in the original post. (Was this post 1 year old or 10 years old?)
    • Any additional information you deem relevant.
    • Tags: RDX, RedditExtraction, TechSupport, troubleshooting, etc.

Specific Example:

[RDX] Do PCIE to PCI slot conversion adapters require the PCIE or PCI version of drivers?

I have an old PCI card that I would like to use on a current PC. I’ve seen adapters that should work, but my particular card had both PCI and PCIE versions released. Which driver should I install, or does it even matter?

Response by u/… in 2013:

Install the PCI version.
Since the card itself is PCI, that is the “language” the PC needs to speak for it to understand. PCIE should be backward compatible, just not physically compatible.

I performed the steps recommended and it solved my problem.

Tags: RDX, TechSupport, PCI, PCItoPCIE, PCHardware

With proper identification (title or tags), it should be easier to add features to the website and apps for filtering out such posts.

I would be even more helpful if there was an option on the New Thread page that auto-filled some of this info or redirected to a form page with separate entries for each element.

Another, more complicated, possibility would be to include a user editable wiki with each community, with extracted data listed as a section. New entries and notes can be submitted, but require moderators approval. Unapproved entries would still show, but with a warning that it hasn’t been approved yet.

Thoughts?