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
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. 😋)
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