@gsgmfg@fosscad.io did it, the madman. In conjunction with a kind user from the Index’s Lemmy instance, he was able to restore almost all of the data from /r/fosscad. There’s a bit of a loss in images, but the text – the oh-so-valuable advice and discourse – is all there.

And the best part: it’s federated between both of our instances. There are now not one but two copies of the data: one local to his instance and one local to mine.

Find it here: !ark@fosscad.io