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Kinda sorta hope we can federate in reddit's history at some point, like a static instance and move on. I've pretty much jumped ship, but no point in denying there's a history there.
While Greece is still relevant today, its ancient history is what people look to. So long as Reddit continues to exist in search results, it will serve a similar purpose.
The problem with your analogy is that swaths of Reddit's knowledge is intentionally being overwritten by its posters. There's no guarantee that indexed search results won't link to a comment that just says "Fuck /u/spez".
this is what I fear, this is probably a hot take but I hope reddit might as well make it possible to see the first iteration of a comment, genuinely useful for knowledge subreddit
Reddit has, throughout the years, said that they don't keep a revision history of comments, only the text from the most recent comment and flags like "deleted", "edited", "removed by mods" etc.
Of course, they could be lying, but a lot of these things were said before the recent drama and there's no real reason to doubt.
I suppose one could go dig up the old open-sourced code from like 2017 and see how comments and posts were stored then, and hope in the intervening years they hadn't altered it?
I suspect it’s the truth. For a site the size of Reddit keeping a version history of comments would represent a huge expenditure of resources for essentially no purpose.
Let's be real. That probably happened with ancient civilizations like Greece and Rome too lol in fact there are some d ocumentaries that point out just that, with Graves being defaced with.. unkind words haha very uncouth and graffiti all over temples that are anti certain statesmen of the time etc
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