Revoluciana

Is anyone doing anything to archive some of the more significant trans subreddits?

I'm especially thinking about the trans surgeries resources of which there seems no parallel anywhere else on the internet. To be clear, I haven't heard anything about that subreddit going down and haven't been following closely, but considering the dumpster fire situation of Reddit as a whole right now, I feel like the loss of resources like these would be an incredible tragedy.

Jun 24, 2023 at 12:50pmWeb
Show threadRevolucianaJun 24, 2023

I can't believe I'm talking about the potential loss of a subreddit as an incredible tragedy, but here we are and it's the truth-- it would be a tragedy.

We have so few resources, especially concerning topics like these. Losing even one of them is truly a loss.

Show threadRevolucianaJun 24, 2023
As a side note, if you do know of better resources for knowledge surrounding trans surgeries, I would be incredibly appreciative if you would share.
Show threadInkJun 24, 2023
@revoluciana there are some files there to download, I have downloaded one only, I don't know if it's possible to send it over mastodon, but downloading any and all files seems smart. I did notice some posts disappearing from my saved, presumably the accounts deleted, so I think even it they aren't shutting down the place is becoming a smaller resource
Show threadRevolucianaJun 24, 2023

@inkkk that's a really good point about accounts closing, etc.

Thanks for this!

Show threadInkJun 24, 2023
@revoluciana this might include trans surgeries, I haven't gone through it: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/
Digital Transgender Archive

Show threadToni WidmoJun 24, 2023
@revoluciana I think generally the information on reddit would be a shame to loose. I was rarely active on reddit, but often google searches took me there and I did occassionally find some gems of discussions on various things. Feels dirty clicking on links to there now. Same with twitter threads, only worse.
Show threadRevolucianaJun 24, 2023
@toni Agreed. All of the above.
Show threadToni WidmoJun 24, 2023
@revoluciana I do know that lemmy.blahaj.zone has a lot of very heavilly subscribed trans 'communities'. For example it has 'Transfem' with 840 subscribers, 34 posts and 269 comments already. It has 'egg_irl' with 606 subscribers and 18 posts. And there are trans groups on other lemmy/kbin instances. A lot of these are linking to each other, and to various relevant resources. So whilst they might not be able to archive all the conversations that happened, they are probably recreating places where the resources and important info can easily be shared.
Show threadRevolucianaJun 24, 2023
@toni Thank you! I'll check it out.