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This has been a strange year.

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[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 53 points 3 years ago (2 children)

While this year has been painful for the data preservationist part of me, I also couldn't be more excited for the rise of the small web and open platforms.

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[–] dan@lemm.ee 19 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Yeah all that information disappearing is a huge disappointment.

But realistically while Reddit Inc own that data it was always going to happen eventually. If it wasn't the demand from LLMs pushing them to lock it away so they can monetise it, it'd have been a move like Twitter blocking non logged in users, or just them purging old data to save money or something.

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[–] snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 years ago

I keep saying that it's like losing a shitty Library of Alexandria.

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