• The Barto
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    If Reddit goes through with their threat of removing their links from Google, then Lemmy will definitely win.

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      Please, for the love of the internet, never feel like you can’t contribute and keep things fun, interesting, and completely weird. That’s how we take back what we all love.

      … and while there’s no reason to state the obvious I’ll say it anyway. Fuck spez

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      If Reddit goes through with their threat of removing their links from Google

      Why the hell would they do that?

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        It’s part of blocking 3rd party indexers because they think they’re like tiktok, not a library

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          The only reason I visit Reddit anymore is because it’s a vast sea of human experience and knowledge. Usually I just search Google with “[topic I’m interested in learning about] site:reddit.com”.

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            I’m honestly surprised someone at this point hasn’t just ported over all the comments from Reddit over to Lemmy, since they’re basically public domain comments from the human species that Reddit is just storing. IANAL.

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              Probably because it’d take a ton of time and money (because of API limits and costs), and it’d potentially disrupt Lemmy too much.

              Reddit is a massive site, as far as how much content it’s stored over the years.

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                I assumed that the people over in the DataHoarder communities had archives running this whole time. There’s probably data out there somewhere, it’s a matter of getting it into a usable hosted state

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                I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some huge, semi-complete datasets of the site somewhere. Maybe the-eye has something? That would ease the process, since the content has already been hoarded.

                Also, the new posts of some subreddits are being copied live to the equivalent Lemmy communities by bots made for that purpose.

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        Something to do with Reddit asking big tech companies to pay for AI training on its contents.