Reddit should’ve thought about that before fucking with that user, then.
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cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months agoso the solution no longer is there, depriving those who may be looking.
Which honestly, does more harm (to regular people) than good (harming reddit)
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
MVP
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.
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.
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.
papalonian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, this is useful for textbook information, sure. But when I’m trying to solve a niche technical problem, trying to fix a mod for a game, looking for a specific guide I’ve followed before etc, my local library/ ChatGPT is completely useless. Whereas Reddit has like a 99% chance of someone having the exact same issue I’m having, posting about it, then editing the post with “nvm I fixed it” (/s).
Some of these solutions are so specific that the chances of finding them elsewhere are slim, especially for older issues where Google’s algorithm has been pointing the the same reddit post for over a decade. No one else bothers making a new post because it’s already been answered on Reddit. Now that post with the information is gone, and the only solution we can get is “Deleted by a script. Fuck Spez!”
abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Come to think of it, that’s actually a reasonable argument.
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?
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 *
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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?
Yes, and if said data is worth it, (or at least in the mind of whatever executive is in charge of such a decision at least or Spez himself) they would absolutely spend the money to store at least one complete backup. They’re mostly not doing monthly backups or whatever, but at least one prior to a major policy change announcement that they knew would piss off a lot of people is reasonable.
You’re thinking too logically here, to whatever executive (s) are in charge and probably Spez himself, data = AI = $$$, Lots of data = AI = $$$$$ someone along the lines went “Our users will probably be pissed and start fucking with their profiles, IT backup all the things” and IT/infra engineers probably went (Just like you) that’s going to be a LOT of data and cost" and then that same exec probably went “Idgaf, you’re just some engineer, you don’t how much value it has on the markettttt!! So do it”
bahbah23@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Backing up all the data is just good disaster recovery. I don’t have any insider information either, but I would be more surprised if they don’t have at least one off site backup of everything ever on the site. At least anything textual, but probably media as well
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.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
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.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I still get there through search engines from time to time. Some niche topics don’t have many communities covering it.
The absurdest one is the Open Source game Pixel Dungeon and it’s fork. The wiki that documents a lot of item and skill behavior is on fandom (content has a good license and there are mirrors, but meh). The communty moved to lemmy, but a lot of important questions were only answered on reddit. The content doesn’t move, only the users. And if the question is already answered on reddit it’s actually less likely that it will also be asked here.
Serinus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Like it or not we all spent years adding a small chunk of the world’s knowledge to Reddit. I was fine with that at the time.
That knowledge hasn’t moved, and likely won’t. Past Reddit isn’t going away any time soon. I’m content with getting future knowledge to a better place rather than moving the old knowledge.
Also, try not to be a dick. Not everyone who disagrees with you has been “brainwashed”.