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There's always been a tonne of censorship on Reddit, tho? Admin and to a lesser extent Mods have unchecked power to delete and even edit whatever they so please. user and subreddits get banned, shadowbanned.
My problem is different from everybody else's here. I'm not bitter towards Reddit, I can watch it thrive in different hands from the sidelines, I don't need it to crash and burn. But it's a repository of information that's almost second-to-none and my fear is embittered redditors scorching the earth before they bail.
Anecdotally, this evening I had an issue with my Plex server (HEVC main 10 videos maxing out CPU usage for transcodes, I digress) and searched my problem. Lo and behold 95% of qwant searches returned reddit threads, and the plex subreddit is still set to private.
I defend people's rights to do what they want with their data and delete their histories on their way out—but damn if it isn't going to hurt a little in the short term. reddit has helped me problem solve a million things, I'd hate to think that someone after me searching the same problem couldn't find a solution.
I can see why people who volunteered their own time to put together informational posts and tutorials don't want Reddit to benefit from them. I just hope they copy those threads into a new post on one of these Lemmy/kbin sites, but sadly that probably won't happen.
The loss of information like this is nothing new. When Geocities shut down, a lot of Web 1.0 era sites were lost forever. Various internet forums have shut down over the years taking all of their old posts with them. Link rot is another issue with sites like Imgur deleting old content. This is why sites like the Internet Archive are so important. They are the library of the internet.