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• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there anywhere I can find a complete scrape of Reddit threads and comments from before the 3rd party app apocalypse? There was a lot of useful info shared on there, but I don’t want anything to do with what that site has become. I’m happy just to CTRL+F a big dataset. It’ll probably still work better than either Reddit or Google does nowadays. Without media I imagine I could fit it somewhere.

  Also, Spez is a greedy little pig boy.

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  • Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We really need efforts made to bulk upload historical posts of value to lemmy. If done right, we could significantly expand the amount of subs and content, even if they are ghost towns initially with just the old posts from reddit. Build it and they will migrate.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    are you going to use it to train your deepseek?

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    • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I never understood the desire to search in conversational language via AI. It’s gone to far for my taste. I just want to be able to scour a huge volume of info for my exact search terms, maybe with a few synonyms or misspellings included. Google and AI keep trying to assume they know what I’m looking for, but they’re always wrong (intentionally wrong based on their own motives).

      The reason the dataset interests me is that search has gotten so bad that I can’t get any non-corporate information from search engines anymore, just more pig swill, chumbucket ads, and misinformation slop. Anything I search for would probably give better results if I just searched old reddit, Wikipedia, and a few other datasets locally in a simple way. Not sure what software is best to use for something like that, but I’d like to collect a few mostly pre-AI datasets now to get the ball rolling before you can’t find those online anymore either.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not everyone is perverted like you.

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  • MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, there’s a torrent somewhere…

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• RufusFirefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmy can expect some inbound traffic

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• arunshah240@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After reddit goes paywall It’s time to Lemmy

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• five82@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t had an account since the Apollo purge but fuck Spez.

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The api shit they pulled is why i left and never went back

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same. I left when it was announced.

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  • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck Spez

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you spez for killing reddit, please digg faster

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• Dezzillion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  RIP Reddit

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• needthosepylons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s Reddit? A clone of Lemmy?

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• tiaxcrystal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s why I’m here. Just made an account. Sick of everything being a goddamn subscription.

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• purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is this new? Reddit gold gave you access to the subreddit that only gold members could access. It didn’t have anything good in it as everyone would rather have a larger reach.

  If he intends to convert an existing sub to it, he will quickly find how much people are happy to more to a new sub.

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• redditsentme@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i too deleted my 15-Year Club reddit account

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• bromosapiens@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just left, deleted my account of 15ish years tonight, no regrets. Happy to be here.

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  • shortrounddev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The internet feels post-apocalyptic now. I no longer have any social media accounts (does lemmy count?) . Places that I spent over a decade on now feel so hostile and foreign. I joined reddit as a teenager wanting to read f7u12 comics, and now reddit feels like a total outrage machine. I mean the ads are crap but the algorithm doesn’t show me content I WANT to see anymore. It just shows me videos of car accidents and street fights and other things that get my cortisol levels up. Blocking subreddits straight up doesnt work. I like that on lemmy I can just filter only by the communities I subscribe to

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    • Boourns@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same thing here… I only just discovered Lemmy. I don’t know how I managed to only discover it now. But so far so good. It’s not quite as active but that’s okay, Reddit used to be the same way and was actually better then.

      I do feel like the old parts of the internet were decentralized and based on protocols, not single websites. So this is very refreshing and feels like getting back to the roots.

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    • RufusFirefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been online since the late 80s and the Internet, generally speaking, has gone to shit. I’ve been on Reddit for 16 years and it’s been going down the tubes for a while now. Too many people, overzealous mods and now a soft paywall? Yeah, I’m done.

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    • bromosapiens@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes same. I don’t want to be stressed out by the internet anymore. I want internet for millennials back.

      Nice to meet you, everyone’s been so lovely thus far.

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  • Lvdwsn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same bromo, finally felt like it was time. So many good memories on Reddit for me over the last 14 years but finally felt like it was the right move to no longer give it my attention!

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      thére are dozens of us

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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome!

    The fediverse situation has been improved a lot since the first API migration, hope you enjoy it here!

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I left 2 years ago from my 13yo account, deleted everything as well

    Obligatory Fuck You spez

    No regrets, I love Lemmy

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With the API changes, I became read-only (without an account) on Reddit.

    I now skim the communities that don’t really exist here.

    … it’s actually saved me a lot of time now that I can’t (and thus don’t feel the need to) debate local politics with morons anymore!

    … unless and until they come to Lemmy.

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    • Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The energy and time I’ve saved not arguing on reddit is wild, I initally came here defensive and its been so nice

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    • bromosapiens@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looking forward to having more conversations with fewer people. I’m not trying to argue politics anymore. It’s fruitless.

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  • Fashim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome, I joined here after the API protests. It’s a smaller community so content is slow to move but it’s nice to have forums where you’re having constructive conversations with people, not a huge amount of bots or repeated to death catch phrases

    Enjoy this little bastion before it attracts mainstream attention. :)

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man I kinda thought they had already hit enshittification bottom. And then they bring out the backhoe and dynamite.

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• Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its never been a better time to ignore reddit

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s “reddit” and why does Lemmy seem obsessed with it?

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have eaten far too much popcorn this far, but will keep watching the collapse. My account is 17 - 18 years old at this point but I have not logged in for at least a year.

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• Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I almost wish Elon would buy it, so he can “manage” it like he did Twitter

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• Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Get fuuuuuuucked, Reddit

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• xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not a great decision from Reddit.

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s why I left. I regret nothing.

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  • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m so glad I left.

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Enshittification intensifies.

  spez is slow walking Reddit to the graveyard.

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  • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s slowly becoming twitter/x

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    • TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s been obvious for a while that spez is trying to be a Musk/Zuck.

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• Absaroka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.

  “Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?”

  The answer was basically “rose colored glasses.”

  I joined **Reddit **after the ‘deaths’ of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Now it’s bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.

  Delete.

  I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don’t see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.

  Delete.

  I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.

  Delete.

  So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The ‘social’ in ‘social’ media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.

  After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Delete

    Delete

    Delete

    Mikami Teru, is that you?

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  • Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Real af, I always talked about missing old reddit and didn’t realize the experience I missed was budding over here

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had the exact same experience except that I never got onto Insta because Meta bought it.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reddit, Facebook, Instagram:

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “more ads” as if it isn’t already as flooded as meta sites.

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• False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine what sub-reddits they think people would willingly participate in that are paid-only. Decreasing visibility and potential participation group automatically makes those worse in most cases.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Porn?

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, actually. I could see them taking on OnlyFans if they wanted to. But I think they want to be more mainstream than that.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If small dick energy had a face it would be Steve Huffman’s.

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  • bilb@lem.monster ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    His dick isn’t small, I sucked him off once

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, I thought he was the guy who had the woflds most punchable face…

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re not mutually exclusive.

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Please reddit, make more bad decisions faster so people can overcome switching costs finally

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• Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  imagine charging for displaying content you didn’t even make.

  the balls are astounding, but this ain’t gonna go well for them.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was thinking a profit sharing concept for the people running the sub would make sense. I’m sure that’s not what it is though.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is probably targeting a adult content creators, aka trying to get a finger in onlyfans’ pie

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    • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s pretty much the only real market I can see for this.

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If the paid subreddits pay out to the creators, that seems like an okay feature. Also dipping into the Patreon market.

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  • hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like using the failed Reddit Gold lounge as a business model. A sub of awkward dudes that paid to be there and random people passing through and not sure WTF is going on with the awkward party.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have they stopped that now? I remember being in it at one point. I didn’t post and didn’t really look at it

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m going to frame your comment and sell it!

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not to mention that paywalled content being moderated by unpaid volunteers.

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    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some mods would do it. I don’t know why, but they would.

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    • Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And commented and reposted by bots.

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  • JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I disagree. I hate the decisions they make and personally, along with you, I think it’s idiotic.

    But while I hate on them, they will get away with it. Theyre not stupid. The decisions don’t align with its users but it will still work.

    Look at netflix raising prices for arguably content. Working for them.

    Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps. Not sure the effect but reddit doesn’t seem to really be hurting. Users want to move but reddit is just too good. I even still use it because the user content on there is amazing. I try to ask all my questions/have discussions on lemmy, but I’m one person. Reddit has infinity more always contributing. I think the management sucks, but the platform just isn’t fully rivaled yet so they can keep milking their audience.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I disagree that Reddit has good content but even bad content is better than no content for communities that haven’t been built here yet

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree. It costs them almost nothing to implement and when you have a big enough userbase there are always rubes who will pay for anything you charge for.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps.

      The secret is they made it easy to bypass, the API still works if you moderate any subreddit, even if it’s one you just made. They made it just difficult enough to move the 99% of normie users to their own app.

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    • kinkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Netflix was always a paid service though. I don’t know if people will want to pay for something they’ve had for free for over a decade, especially if the free subreddits will still exist.

      I’d also imagine that for any paid subreddit, someone will make a free version with similar content.

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• introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sigh unzips pants and fuck u/spez

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• ZeroCool@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, he’s been talking about it for awhile. This is not new information.

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• fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes.

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• Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One could argue they already did that with Reddit Gold and /r/Lounge

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The lounge is trash content anyways.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man this reddit site sounds awful

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  • puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i really wish there was an open source alternative to it :(

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      looks around

      …wait.

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