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submitted 9 months ago by leanleft@lemmy.ml to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world

it would be really great to have a lemmy client (or feature of existing client) that allows for batch downloading of a user specified list of communities.
this would allow a user to download all the content for the day or week on wifi internet and then depart from the source of internet but slowly & carefully read a selection of material(text posts, comment discussion, and even images like memes).
one benefit is that it would be extra impossible to see what users are loading/viewing because they already loaded everything and are disconnected from the internet entirely. performance is also good because there is no network latency that would be experienced, each time, when accessing the servers.

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[-] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

Interesting request, it makes sense in some use cases.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

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.

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