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requesting an offline lemmy app
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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Interesting request, it makes sense in some use cases.
Seems like a lot of server upload data from instances for stuff that may never be viewed. Plus, what would you get? A bunch of titles with links you can't click? A large amount of user comments that are normally not loaded because they aren't viewed most of the time? Seems like a bad idea.
If you limit it to text, it might be kept light usage-wise. I guess OP is thinking about comments-focused communities where you can just read the text and don't need to visit external links.
There are libraries out there that can be use to fetch a snapshot of a webpage. Would be cool to use them when generating offline snapshot so links to articles can bee viewed offline.
a way more radical approach would be to distribute the database openly as a torrent file. everyone peers it and everyone downloads it [or parts]. then plug in the data to the client.