The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit could be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    niche community probably will crawl their own data or reddit wiki/FAQs before they retreat to other platform,

    Except I’ve seen a bunch of people saying they deleted their reddit history before they deleted their account, because they didn’t want reddit to be able to keep any value from their past contributions.

    Now, I don’t know how many valuable comments would be impacted by that, but it is a concern for the same reasons already discussed.