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this makes my little archivist heart sad tbh. fuck spez.
For that reason, I'm leaving mine up. Some might be useless, sure. But others I put some effort in. They're a little piece of Internet history, and I'm loath to set fire to that. I can still move to another platform while leaving my account intact.
As a newbie data hoarder the Reddit exodus has felt like my first real trail for making a personal archive of content I wanna go back to. Ran a scraper on a few of my top subs right before the blackout on top of cherry picking posts I regularlly returned to for information.
Overall think I'm pretty set for never returning to that place.
https://lemm.ee/comment/251639 how to download your Reddit data in a better way
I've done a data request with Reddit and will probably attempt to use a script to download my entire history (plus context, if possible) before July 1, then I'll see about overwriting the comments.
You can check this out https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-download-your-reddit-data/
I did the same to my 10 year old, 120k karma account; all that was lost was stupid jokes and meme references.