Reddit is archived and available as torrent up until the API change.
Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You can’t remove it. It’s there forever.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Wrong.
You can request deletion of archived pages.cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And you think reddit actually deletes it? Risk data loss? All that valuable data? No way. They might shadow delete it, but it’s there forever.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
both of you are correct because you are speaking of different things
ludicolo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
There are some browser extensions that will edit your comments and make them each a random a bunch of random words. I do not know how effective they are so I cannot vouch for them.
I know that if you tried to just delete the comment, the information would still be there but the username is deleted. Which is frustrating, I didn’t know that until I had already deleted every post and comment, went back to make sure the job was done. It wasn’t. I just came to terms that at least I wasn’t contributing to their hub of knowledge anymore.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 weeks ago
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