Yeah, I've had a think after I made my previous reply and the questionable part mentioned isn't the archiving, but the inclusion of the deleted/removed comments.

I still haven't started with the script mentioned in a different comment, but if I were to do it, I'd likely be putting a one second delay on every request.

Thanks!

Got me!

I am still into that research. Yes. Research. For science!

In my response to someone, I already expressed concern about their long-term visibility--which is the reason why I even thought of doing this. I can't do anything about "contribution to a public discussion" if those very discussions pretty much disappear. This might be showing my lack of knowledge about what federation actually is, and if it is, it's pretty much on me.

For the second point, I already addressed it in the OP and in one of my responses. I'm pretty much not a programmer and my knowledge about it is pretty much writing a "hello world" program.

I'd rather not bother my admins (they're already burnt-out), and with what you just said, maybe I'm better off doing it manually--if I would do it afterall. TBH, I'm scared off by the impression that saving my own posts and comments is somehow taboo.

Thanks!

Good point. I am actually not so certain if my posts and comments will remain visible after lemm.ee goes, so I am thinking of doing this as a backup.

Thanks!! I think can get started with this--like this weekend.

But this makes me wonder, if it is as easy as it seems to be, why is this not already a thing?

Hmm, reading the /user API endpoint, I think I understand some words (but hardly). ‌Thanks!

My coding skill is worse than my search-fu. While I can make a "hello world" script with bash, that's about my level of coding skill.

However, let's assume that I'm willing to still do it. I have this coming weekend to do the following:

1. Study the Lemmy API with the aim of extracting the JSON of:
   • all of my posts
   • all my comments and the posts where they were made
2. Create the logic:
   • extracting the posts
   • tracking the posts where the comments were made, and then extracting them
3. Write the script.

I think the worst of it would be studying the API, but programming using Bash (or Phyton--which I am totally ignorant of, but might be better for handling the data) might also give me trouble.

I'm going to need a lot of luck if I'm going this route. I dunno if it's better than just doing it manually.