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Reddit will block the Internet Archive (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It is my understanding that if you block the wayback machine from indexing your site it will also delist the history as well.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They do archive sites against the owners wishes when they consider it an important site for public archiving, like some news sites. They are in no obligation to delete the archives and hope they don’t.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    Parties have archived the data from pushshift, which cover a lot of Reddit history.

    kagis

    https://academictorrents.com/details/1614740ac8c94505e4ecb9d88be8bed7b6afddd4

    Subreddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2024-12

    This is the top 40,000 subreddits from reddit's history in separate files. You can use your torrent client to only download the subreddit's you're interested in.

    I mean, that won't have the past half year or some low-traffic subreddits, but...

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