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funn@lemy.lol to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Online Content Is Disappearing

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    There’s some old Reddit posts like this too. Advice threads where the person who posted a solution went back and overwrote their comments during the boycott last year. I know why they did it but we still lost some information in the grand scheme of things.

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      Most of reddit was already archived before: https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/

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        Also by the Archive Warrior project: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/#show-all

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      And that is why I criticized the decisions every time I read about it. Every time I got mixed responses but ultimately got a higher downvote ratio.
      Also a reason I participate(d) in the archive warrior reddit project.

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