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Given that the Internet Archive is the de facto standard way to cite material as seen on a given date

they're a trustworthy party that will probably persist for a long time

that's going to make it harder to cite content on Reddit.

As somebody who often ends up using Reddit like Stackoverflow and in some cases needing the Internet Archive (IA) to find the original post after it’s been deleted or garbled, I think this is a wakeup call for those go to Reddit both to get technical help and to post it. More than ever, Reddit is becoming an unreliable place to find answers for old obscure issues and if they are going to lockout places like the IA then I think it’s time people stopped contributing their solutions to Reddit.

It’s another move to protect against AI scraping that isn't paying them for access.

I already gave up from Reddit long time ago. Deleted all

As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway

People who posted on Reddit ( speaking in the past tense, because who would continue to do so now that we have better things? ) never intended for it to be of limited access. Reddit was a publicly accessible place, and people shared their thoughts and comments on it because it was the frontpage of the internet, so the place of choice to share things with the world. That being scraped should not be a problem. But clearly Reddit didn't want to give you a platform to share your thoughts with the world, they wanted you to donate your thoughts and take it as their property so that they can capitalize on it.

That place is becoming more and more of a shithole. Bots, Ads, trolls, garbage mods… deleted the app last month.

The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.

Yeah, wouldn't want those AI companies to get all that data for free. Gotta make 'em pay for it.

This is huge blow to archivism, thanks to corporate greed and enshittification of reddit. Worst MBA filled POS.

reddit can go fuck itself.

Oh no, someone might not be paying them for their user generated content (!)

To be fair, it's probably best that history forgets this period of the web...

Damn you Spez.

So reddit will become even less valuable

Good plan. Keep locking down your big tech platforms, and we'll all be over here letting folks know where they can find freedom.

I am new to Lemmy, is there a fuckreddit sub?

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Fuck Reddit

They can keep their shit for themselves, stopped caring a long time ago.

fucking reddit...

Time to just ignore them and scrape it anyways

OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

In the lieu of an IPO u/spez has actively destroyed everything that made Reddit good! Gate keeping the API thinking it'll help with making some bigshot LLM some day lol

When reddit has mutated a few more times. They start erasing stuff themselves. It will be lost to time and that fills me with hope.

This company limited search crawlers to google, why are you surprised?

If you can't archive something, did it ever really exist?

Is that even possible?