• MentalEdge
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    2 years ago

    Even if reddit changes course at this point… I’ve found Lemmy. And it’s just… better. And beyond that, it would take reddit years to recoup the goodwill they’ve lost with this.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      It is sad that we are going to loose a bunch of community knowledge that is on reddit if they go under but fuck spez and reddit

      Though I wish there was a backup of reddit so we can keep the community knowledge gathered throughout the years

      Edit: typo

      • Mike Stevens 🇦🇺
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        12 years ago

        It’ll technically all still be there on reddit, right? We can treat it as an archive without actually being active users. Heck, you could even form a volunteer group to collate all the most important threads and key points into some posts here, or some google docs, etc.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          There are some people, who in the light of the protest and moving to Lemmy, have deleted their accounts. Of these people there are also those who have purged their data, as in removed all their comments/posts.

          If the purgers were content creators or support geeks, then the communities they interacted with might become a little “moth eaten”.

          Luckily, r/datahoarder has been looking into archiving reddit before the chaos.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            There’s a couple of scripts out there not just to delete previous posts, but to edit them all into gibberish. Even random gibberish for each post/comment. That’s much more destructive to reddit’s value and hard for datahoarders to detect, unless they started before the uprising and track changes.

        • @[email protected]
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          2 years ago

          Pushshift data might be a very good candidate for a reddit archive of data before may 1st but I’m not sure on the specifics of Pushshift access to the data

          • alaphic
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            12 years ago

            before may 1st

            Not sure if time traveler, or…?

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Reddit disabled api access for pushshift on may 1st over the claims of “user privacy” if I recall correctly which we know is bullshit because reddit are hypocrites and sell user data anyways

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Something the Internet Archive should look into, if they’re not being sued at this present moment.