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[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 110 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reddit is a trove of user built content under the guise of community. What Spez did was to say "thanks for all the free work, suckers!", put a price sticker on it, and laughed all the way to the bank.

~~And this is why I'm not active on any Internet community anymore.~~ Nevermind, I guess I just can't help myself...

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

And that is another unintended example of why all of my post history was purged before migration.

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?

[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Some 4chan users created a backup bot that auto saves every few hours, so if reddit didn't do it already, 4chan has been doing it for a while. The bot was originally made for 4chan but repurposed for other websites, reddit included.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's all too late. Shit, PRISM was 2007, so there's a copy of everything somewhere. Obviously different ends.

[-] Ilgaz@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Spez like people are even capable of leeching archive.org and still sell the data which was archived for good intentions.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Depends. If they were smart they backed up every content that had a certain number of upvotes and/or a certain number of paragraphs and/or responses. Just to weed out all the 2-3 word comments that no one interacted with. If OP wrote mostly those then Reddit gives a shit about them deleting those.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Welcome to the club.

[-] redfox@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago

Don't cheat yourself just because there are douches that take advantage...

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