Given that the Internet Archive is the de facto standard way to cite material as seen on a given date

they're a trustworthy party that will probably persist for a long time

that's going to make it harder to cite content on Reddit.

As somebody who often ends up using Reddit like Stackoverflow and in some cases needing the Internet Archive (IA) to find the original post after it’s been deleted or garbled, I think this is a wakeup call for those go to Reddit both to get technical help and to post it. More than ever, Reddit is becoming an unreliable place to find answers for old obscure issues and if they are going to lockout places like the IA then I think it’s time people stopped contributing their solutions to Reddit.

It’s another move to protect against AI scraping that isn't paying them for access.

I already gave up from Reddit long time ago. Deleted all

As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway

Just more vindication for my ditching that trash heap of a platform. YT is probably going to be the next platform I ditch as they're going full Reddit now.

It's a matter of time before third-party YT front-ends start getting throttled or outright blocked like third-party Reddit front-ends.

People who posted on Reddit ( speaking in the past tense, because who would continue to do so now that we have better things? ) never intended for it to be of limited access. Reddit was a publicly accessible place, and people shared their thoughts and comments on it because it was the frontpage of the internet, so the place of choice to share things with the world. That being scraped should not be a problem. But clearly Reddit didn't want to give you a platform to share your thoughts with the world, they wanted you to donate your thoughts and take it as their property so that they can capitalize on it.

That place is becoming more and more of a shithole. Bots, Ads, trolls, garbage mods… deleted the app last month.

The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.

Yeah, wouldn't want those AI companies to get all that data for free. Gotta make 'em pay for it.

This is huge blow to archivism, thanks to corporate greed and enshittification of reddit. Worst MBA filled POS.

Oh no, someone might not be paying them for their user generated content (!)

To be fair, it's probably best that history forgets this period of the web...

Damn you Spez.

Good plan. Keep locking down your big tech platforms, and we'll all be over here letting folks know where they can find freedom.

I am new to Lemmy, is there a fuckreddit sub?

Fuck Reddit

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Nice of them to protect their (users') content from AI scrapping. So that they can charge AI companies for it instead.

fucking reddit...

OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

In the lieu of an IPO u/spez has actively destroyed everything that made Reddit good! Gate keeping the API thinking it'll help with making some bigshot LLM some day lol

This company limited search crawlers to google, why are you surprised?

When reddit has mutated a few more times. They start erasing stuff themselves. It will be lost to time and that fills me with hope.

Fuck Spez

Is that even possible?

Not that reddit isn't hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there's a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.

AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.