RIF will be shutting down on June 30, 2023, in response to Reddit Inc’s API changes and their hostile treatment of developers building on their platform.

  • ApathyMoose@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I don’t love the idea of everyone deleting their comments.

    I know Reddit has gone shit. And we should not add more, but I don’t want all the knowledge and tech support fixes it be gone forever. That’s knowledge people can still use.

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      1 year ago

      All your posts and comments will feed the future AI’s. That’s the end goal of reddit: selling their database to different AI’s. Don’t give it for free.

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        1 year ago

        Pretty sure it’s already been scraped. Plus there is the way back machine. But I can’t even count the amount of times I have run in to an issue at work or at home and googled “Problem Reddit” or “item review Reddit” . That info has been invaluable.

        Leave Reddit. No more new content. But it’s sad to see such a knowledge base just wiped. It’s hurting the normal people. Reddit has their data. AI has scraped it, or will scrape the history sites of it.