Can we start funding Archive.org to start scraping reddit like it did for 30% of Geocities or whatever because Reddit this kills the Reddit. Everything that matters is scattered to the winds already like when they killed Oink or The Silk Road or MySpace or AOL or whatever. Seriously though. Reddit is a trove. We should be making a directed effort to archive it as completely as we can. It is kind of their property. I guess. Just as much as the four sites left on the internet are largely populated with screen shots from the other sites... but yeah. I do not have the time to spearhead this, but I can set up a repo and push out an idea and I'd gladly dump some cash into Archive.org and I think a lot of other people would to.
I really really think if that's isn't already happening it should. The conversations on that platform are our cultural heritage and this scumbag shit can suck my fucking dick. Die in a fire quarterly capital sleep under a painting of a lion dickwheels. Gut me for my past again. I dare you.
I believe they started archiving reddit stuff in 2021, in reaction to a different PR disaster. There was definitely a huge push to archive more and faster in the last month though.
Fuck yes. Thank you. I've avoided checkin in because as you might be able to tell this is personal. I have never seen Archive Team before. I am so ready to get involved and put my body and resources against the wheel. FUCK THIS SHIT.
This isn’t going to end well. I hope the IPO is a disaster as a result of all this nonsense that could have been easily avoided if Reddit had their shit together.
The mods are losing. If you search for "reddit gamedev" on Google, /r/gamedev is nowhere in sight, instead you'll see /r/gamedevelopment and /r/truegamedev (which are not private). The "eternal september" effect means that those other communities will quickly surpass /r/gamedev. It's simple internetology.
Simple internetology also dictates that when a site starts making the user experience miserable, users will accrete elsewhere. Discord is actively eating away at Reddit's userbase, to the point where community subreddits tend to be on-ramps to the "real" community located in a Discord, and in my perception the blackout seems to have accelerated this trend.
Discord is a fundamentally different thing than Reddit, and while they can steal some market share from one another, there will always be room for both of them.
Lots of communties on Reddit have started the process of migrating to different platforms. The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption.
Most of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.
I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just another Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all-in-one place for people to create communities first and foremost and not just posts.
> The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption.
It's a community by community thing.
Eg: Astro-nerds have places such as universeodon.com with 10K active users (more science journo's and tangential-astro than hard core gravitional physicists) which is one sub reddit equivalent.
With similar Fediverse clumps for various types of math, cyber security, alternative OS hacking, etc. things are happening.
Mass adoption might be missing .. but that can be a good thing, the charm of old reddit a decade+ ago was small groups of high quality.
Are there any public mirrors of the data dump from earlier this year? All of Reddit apparently fit in 2TB. It’d be good to preserve it, newsgroup-style.
That's a narrative that spez is actively pushing, but it's pretty far from the truth. I wasn't a mod, but I deleted my 17-year-old account (and 17,000 comments) and refuse to even lurk there now. I saw several older accounts do the same or plan to on the 1st.
some of the interesting subreddits are already saying "ok we'll re-open but now this community is about john oliver". /r/bestofredditorupdates use to be fun to browse once a week, now its about john oliver.
Readit News
I really really think if that's isn't already happening it should. The conversations on that platform are our cultural heritage and this scumbag shit can suck my fucking dick. Die in a fire quarterly capital sleep under a painting of a lion dickwheels. Gut me for my past again. I dare you.
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Reddit
https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/14kj3z7/so_long_...
Most of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.
I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just another Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all-in-one place for people to create communities first and foremost and not just posts.
Here's an example of a community:
https://sociables.com/community/Sociables/home
It's a community by community thing.
Eg: Astro-nerds have places such as universeodon.com with 10K active users (more science journo's and tangential-astro than hard core gravitional physicists) which is one sub reddit equivalent.
With similar Fediverse clumps for various types of math, cyber security, alternative OS hacking, etc. things are happening.
Mass adoption might be missing .. but that can be a good thing, the charm of old reddit a decade+ ago was small groups of high quality.
Lose their users.
Although this seems to be more about mods. The average Reddit user was over this a long time ago.
community open but the rules have changed.