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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so the solution no longer is there, depriving those who may be looking.

  Which honestly, does more harm (to regular people) than good (harming reddit)

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, kinda. Reddit’s main commodity is its user content. They earn money when people go to the site from Google, see ads, and if they like the content enough, maybe register and keep feeding the beast.

    Removing the content people go to Reddit to access deprives Reddit of some engagement that they would profit from, however small or negligible it may be.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It may be inconvenient to the end user, but that’s the point. Go somewhere other than Reddit for answers.

      But that’s the problem, I’ll gladly go elsewhere when I can, but on many occasions, for me personally, I have run into some random Reddit comment being the only place where the answer is. Luckily, so far when I’ve run into a comment containing a potential answer but has been overwritten I’ve been able to find it in an archive, but how long until that becomes a rarity? Real tangible knowledge has been/is being entirely lost

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      • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Reddit is not the entirety nor even a partial majority of the world’s knowledge.

        You have been brainwashed dude. Idk how else to put it.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reddit should’ve thought about that before fucking with that user, then.

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  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I deleted several thousand comments and multiple high quality posts in niche gaming subs I wrote over the years, all of high quality. My knowledge and contributions don’t belong to spez or reddit, or the internet for that matter. Eventually those niche communities will move someplace else, and I’ll be happy to contribute there again.

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    • BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      MVP

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  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you really think not choosing to put your words on a website is somehow more damaging to the public than enabling yet another greedy pig, you’re either delusional or a greedy little pig yourself.

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    • owatnext@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      See, I’m torn. I have been endlessly helped through college and now university through decades old Reddit posts. But I hate enabling evil companies.

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      • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Information isn’t proprietary. What you once were told about, doesn’t go away with that one instance.

        Everybody wants to act like Reddit is somehow an encyclopedia of verifiable fact, but it wasn’t. It’s a bunch of internet posts from accounts you don’t even know are human or bot, truth or twisted subjective testimonial presented as fact

        Try your local library.

        Try Wikipedia.

        Fuck GPT scores better on these tests than most humans do so, it’s at least as correct as Reddit was.

        People get so addicted to rage bait and these micro dopamine hits from apps that they don’t even know how to function without them anymore ig. Wild.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those “Don’t delete, overwrite” reddit tools have existed for a long time, do you really believe reddit didn’t take at least one complete db snapshot before the whole API shenanigans? They wouldn’t have multiple complete backups of the supposedly “very valuable” data?

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      • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll believe it when I see it.

        Do you have any idea how much space energy maintenance and a plethora of other items it would take to be backing up every comment and post on the site?

        • Classic Reddit armchair moment here btw *

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• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One thing to note is that the reply is only as old as the edit, so it could be a response to the comment telling people to go to Lemmy rather than whatever the original comment was. It could also be sarcasm, hard to tell.

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