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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Realistically Reddit will survive, but it will be a zombie of its former self, kind of similar to how Digg is these days. Let's just hope it kills their valuation and /u/spez has to answer for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really hope it survives, only because I want to preserve and archive all of it's content. Sure, there's a lot of duplicate data and links to other places, but there's also a lot of unique things there. If it dies before it can be properly archived we would lose most of it, with only internet archive keeping some. That would be sad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I think that it's been fairly well archived prior to July 1st. Now that API access is blocked, further backing up becomes harder.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There are some off sites reddit archives, given enough time, there will be a way to find data without visiting reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So you read reddit specifically through the way back at all times, so it'll archive as you go?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)