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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If Reddit goes through with their threat of removing their links from Google

Why the hell would they do that?

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's part of blocking 3rd party indexers because they think they're like tiktok, not a library

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The only reason I visit Reddit anymore is because it's a vast sea of human experience and knowledge. Usually I just search Google with "[topic I'm interested in learning about] site:reddit.com".

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm honestly surprised someone at this point hasn't just ported over all the comments from Reddit over to Lemmy, since they're basically public domain comments from the human species that Reddit is just storing. IANAL.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Probably because it'd take a ton of time and money (because of API limits and costs), and it'd potentially disrupt Lemmy too much.

    Reddit is a massive site, as far as how much content it's stored over the years.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I'm pretty sure I've seen some huge, semi-complete datasets of the site somewhere. Maybe the-eye has something? That would ease the process, since the content has already been hoarded.

    Also, the new posts of some subreddits are being copied live to the equivalent Lemmy communities by bots made for that purpose.

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