• nslatz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit was once a beautiful thing, I hope a way can be found for it to remain so. But this seems like a much nicer place now, more like the Reddit of old. So unfortunately, Deaddit seems like the only moniker that fits now.

    • BeardedGingerWonder@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Billiam@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          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”.

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            1 year ago

            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

            • axtualdave@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              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?

              • blivet@kbin.social
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                1 year ago

                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.

          • jandar_fett@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            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