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The Reddit blackout was pretty underwhelming (beehaw.org)
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In the last 3 days I've been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and...

Yeah

Wasn't expecting the website to literally shut down nor to monopolize r/all, because 3rd party users are the minority, but I hoped for more than whatever this was.

At least there's a silver lining, I discovered new alternatives that have healthier communities

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[–] c0m47053 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have had at least a dozen instances where I have done a Google search for a problem, and clicked a Reddit link without thinking, only to get hit with a private message. I do have an unusual number of problems per day (software dev who seems to spend their evenings trying stupid technical stuff), but I guarantee the impact is not seen on Reddit, but in the many users who never get there.

[–] kobra@readit.buzz 2 points 1 year ago

I was having similar experiences this week but with niche 90s music history. It scared me to think that Reddit has so much control over that data. Makes me wonder if it's possible/feasible for a single person to download a few subreddits as a precautionary archive..

[–] Khalic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you need these infos, you can find reddit mirrors and reddit dumps on torrent

[–] ggadget6@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where? Removeddit and unddit need access to reddit to work. And where are the torrent dumps you're referring to?

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The torrent dumps they are referring to are probably the pushshift dumps which can be found on here but they're a good bit complicated to use efficiently and are mostly text/link dumps only. I'd love to know if there are other torrents though which offer more readability or similar.

edit: also the filesizes are HUGE unpacked. The sizes shown on the page are the COMPRESSED sizes and I haven't yet tried unpacking a file newer than 2009.