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for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Acetamide@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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[–] thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.uk 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

I hate reddit. But it feels like the library of Alexandria burning down (yea I know). All those google search results and educational subreddits that are shutting down forever, and because they are too small reddit won't force open them again.
A lot are in the pushshift archive, but that cuts of at 2022. Also, it doesn't include a lot of the smaller subreddits.
I have had my PC running 24/7 with multiple VPNs to avoid rate limits downloading as much as I can before the API dies, but with some blackouts moving forward a day I have already missed a few.
Like many others, I would often add "reddit" to the end of my searches to get better results, half the websites on web searches now are either AI generated, copies or are completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.

[–] saluer_lorque@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

The Archive Team has been working on reddit for a while now. I've had six workers running since imgur slowed down. If you can spare a little bit of computing power we could use your help! You can learn more here:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

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