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Reddit habit is hard to break. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Google has been pretty much useless lately because it just spits out this SEO spam (probably all written by LLMs, that's the only way to explain why it's never happened before but does happen now), so losing reddit as one of the best sources of non-AI-generated information would set us back a lot.

What we need is the current state of reddit, but frozen in time and just as searchable as reddit is right now. And since reddit won't want to lose SEO, they will be open to scraping.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There are archives of Reddit history, notably the Pushshift archive & current ongoing Archive Team archive. Much of the data can be searched on the Wayback Machine provided by the Internet Archive, although it's not as convenient.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would it be possible to somehow mirror the archive as a read only lemmy instance? Like... Funny@oldreddit so that it would be still searchable from lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I can look into doing this because it sounds like a genius idea. I'll have to work with a friend and see what we can pull together

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