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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.
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
R/Datahoarder has been on this since it started. We aren’t losing shit.
are they on lemmy or somewhere except Reddit?
I don't know if it's exactly what you want, but:
https://lemmy.ml/c/datahoarder
Found from this search of that sub "rehab" list.
Thanks!
They won't go under. They'll just become a shell. If they truly approached bankruptcy, someone would buy them just for the brand.
I get why people are doing it, but truthfully the folks deleting all their comments are the ones truly destroying the data. Even if we all moved on, that data would have still been there for us to google, just like all those mostly dead forums.
or we can try to move the useful information to the new lemmy communities.
Something the Internet Archive should look into, if they're not being sued at this present moment.
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.
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.
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.
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
Not sure if time traveler, or...?
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
Ah, I see! I was completely unaware of this! Thank you for taking my stupid joke response semi-seriously, btw, and actually giving me an answer or some context for the OP... I'm really bad about posting things intending to be taken tongue quite firmly in cheek, and having them... Well, not so much interpreted that way. (Which, I realize, of course, is my own fault, but I seemingly can't help it. 😋)
Meaning Reddit data up to that point in time
They aren't going under. They're still about to make bank. Not as much as if they left the frog in the pot, but they're making peanuts right now.
Do you remember Facebook declining, or myspace? Those places still exist with usable populations. Reddit will linger.