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 to take from working people, you’re either delusional or a greedy little pig yourself.
Edit: better wording added
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.
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.
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!”
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?
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 *
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”
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
