megane_kun

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.

Yes please!

Seven. Some of them are from National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of New Zealand, Finland Web Harvest, Custom Crawl Services, Archive Bot, and Archive Team.

Seems like some entities regularly do a massive crawl of websites in an effort to archive them.

Don't use Voyager that often, but you're currently +4

Diagnosed BIpolar 1, mostly depressive, but sometimes manic.

I am deathly afraid of the manic episodes that I've got some fear of "being too happy". I'd rather deal with the lows (even the lowest of the low) because at least with those, I can trust myself to lack the energy to be destructive. I am fairly confident that in my lowest, I won't even have the energy to commit suicide even if I want to.

Mania is a very different beast altogether. It might manifest on a spectrum from "just too wired up for sleep" to, in a couple of really badly unmanaged episodes, going off to an entirely different part of the country on a whim just because "who cares, I'm dying anyways?" Only through sheer luck did I manage to get home safe both times.

That said, honest self-awareness, honesty to the mental health professionals, and sticking to the treatment plan could make it manageable. It's no guarantee, but it helps.

It also helps to manage expectations: the treatment won't be on target especially on the first states, while the doctors adjust the medication and the dosage, deal with the side effects, etc. Some kind of faith in the process is necessary, I think--not blind trust, but trust that if you inform the doctors honestly any effects (side effects or not) to the best of your abilities, then the doctors can manage the condition better than if you think "I feel fine, the meds aren't needed anymore!"

The treatment--the management of the condition is likely to last until the very end, and that's fine.

About being in a relationship? It's really up to the person and their partner: I wouldn't trust myself to go on in a relationship without at least informing my partner about it--and keeping them up to date with "my mood weather report". However it probably takes experience, a few cycles to get used to it.