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.

Time to just ignore them and scrape it anyways

Cuck boy getting pegged by post top op Garfield is definitely not something I had jotted down in my day-at-a-glance.

YouTube's already throttling users in their mobile site. They have these massive channel cards in their feeds and the video titles/thumbnails disappear after a few offerings, leaving you with the ability to blindly click on a video.

Damn, guess if you want reddit data to train your AI that you’ll need to pay Spez for access.

I'm assuming IA will continue to host their historical archives of Reddit, they'll just not have any new captures after this. Unless IA has said otherwise, it'd be very strange to wipe their archive of Reddit

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

Unrelated but is your username a play on benzene?

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.

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.

Parties have archived the data from pushshift, which cover a lot of Reddit history.

kagis

Subreddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2024-12

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Subreddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2024-12

This is the top 40,000 subreddits from reddit's history in separate files. You can use your torrent client to only download the subreddit's you're interested in.

I mean, that won't have the past half year or some low-traffic subreddits, but...

yes, in a way. this benzene ring

there was a band called Hum and in one of my favorite songs of theirs called The Scientists, the song talks about a couple who are scientists and creating and experimenting with drugs.

she tells him to keep this benzene ring around your finger, and think of me when everything you ever wanted is about to end

i fucking love that song but that moment in the song is just peak layers upon layers of music and poetry and love and adventure.

there was a band called Hum

Wow, what a memory trip! I listened to that song, I don't think I have heard it before, but it is great! I'm pretty sure I heard a different song from them at the time, but they probably live in my mind from looking at BMG and CD warehouse catalogs at the time. Other artists have popped up over the years from there.

I'm glad I asked, and thanks for answering! Somehow that took me back to my Candlebox days.

Yup, same here.

I've declared my YT channel to be dormant starting on the 13th due to this AI age-gating crap.

The ability to block crawling is separate from the ability to delist old pages. The latter usually happens after domains change owners

their big hit was called Stars

oh yeah, I listened to Candelbox. They didn't put on a good live show sadly

Ya that was the one , i listened to it, also. The very beginning sounded very familiar but I'm not sure about the rest. But maybe it's been 30 years and, well ‍️ I never saw Candlebox live, guess I didn't miss out. I really liked Alice in Chains but only got to see Cantrell tour while "waiting"

I never got to see AiC either

Ya 🫤 Jerry is still touring (I think). He was good live then, but the last time I saw him was like a month or two after Layne's death. It's been awhile. He's older, but so am I, and presumably you His solo stuff was great. We ended up getting a lot of AiC stiff at that '02 show. Very solid performance. Not really related, but I've heard the Sublime stuff is good, but I wasn't ever that into them, just have a friend who has stuck with it.