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For people that still want to use reddit, why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, the content created by communities that is exclusively available on that site is really helpful to me. If possible I would definitely try and archive a few subreddits and write something to search and access it offline (sorta like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix but for reddit).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there is an option for people to delete their data when they delete their accounts though. I think a fair bit of info will be disappearing soon

[–] Blackbart42 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is really sad when you think about it. It's a blow to our collective knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is my dilemma. Deleting the data may prevent reddit from profiting off of it, sure, but then where does the knowledge and very specific case tech support of the past half a decade go? Would appreciate all those posts being mass edited and deleted to at least be preserved on the wayback machine.