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Or it could be a really fucking great year. It could mark the end of commercialised social media and the beginnings of truly widespread adoption of free and open alternatives.
While this year has been painful for the data preservationist part of me, I also couldn't be more excited for the rise of the small web and open platforms.
Yeah all that information disappearing is a huge disappointment.
But realistically while Reddit Inc own that data it was always going to happen eventually. If it wasn't the demand from LLMs pushing them to lock it away so they can monetise it, it'd have been a move like Twitter blocking non logged in users, or just them purging old data to save money or something.
I keep saying that it's like losing a shitty Library of Alexandria.
I appreciate your optimistic view on the situation. I really hope Lemmy will one day reach the same level of popularity as Reddit.
I hope it will remain a bit more niche, but yeah.
You gave a hopeless soul some hope today. Thank you.