Reddit

Any backup method still contributes pretty heavily to linkrot. But maybe for any significant comments or submissions, make sure archive.org or archive.is has the page. That's something anyway.

I can understand not wanting to leave them any scraps, but my preference for balance still falls toward leaving the old and deciding to focus on changing the future.

I suppose there's truth to that, yeah - I get it, but just don't think the tradeoff is worth it. I know Reddit probably loves the whole "add reddit add the end of your search query" thing people do, and they probably do get some onboarding from it. But my conjecture is that ongoing everyday traffic and content is more important for them, and if that were to dry up the value of the general purpose search results would follow. In my mind, deleting old content disproportionately affects users vs the company.

And just personally, I see value in the old stuff still being there. For many years people put worthwhile information there, and the website wasn't so aggravatingly user hostile. In the present day, I think the energy is much better spent trying to make alternatives more appealing. Make an account on Lemmy or something, add a post to a community here, that kind of thing.

I have a two-edged sword kind of an opinion regarding these archival methods places like what Reddit does.

It should put it into perspective, how careful you have to be with yourself more than ever with today's internet. Nobody will ever forget because it will most likely never be deleted, even if you went out of your way to purge things. Don't share or tell things to strangers online that you wouldn't even tell your closest loved ones in person. Doing so, sets you up for a unaccounted personal disaster that you won't escape from.

However, people should simply be allowed to purge and not have certain things haunt them. It is already disturbing in Facebook's case where you think you've moved on from deleting things. But as soon as you create a new account, suddenly you're pitched contacts that are too familiar to you. People you wanted to forget about, almost as if Facebook has trained it's algorithms from it's many data server farms, to specifically never letting you forget.

It is insane there are people who are that devoid of reality and morbidly obsessed with archiving and keeping track of everyone's data.

I haven't bothered yet, but if I ever do, I'm thinking the first edit would replace every comment with FUCK SPEZ!!!

Then the second edit would replace every comment with pure random garbage text.

Then, if they decide to revert the random text edits, welp, FUCK SPEZ!!!

This would be a very productive use of your time comrade. 🫡

Reddit already has his content archived. Deleting it won't remove it from Reddit, they can still sell their corpus to whomever they want.