Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late

Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by tmpob on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:55PM (#36260640)

Your posts and comments will still be available in the Pushshift dumps. These have been released as torrents, so there are many thousands of copies of these already.

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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by toomuchtodo on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:04PM (#36260777)

Also the Internet Archive.

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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by yieldcrv on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:18PM (#36260946)

in my experience, its always the current digital trail that gets anybody interested in more sleuthing

and archives on different sites arent used to link to a current digital trail

Like if you were running for political office, nobody is going to start with the archive to try to match to an unknown current user that they further want to link to the candidate. They’ll start with the candidate and try to link to a current username and then maybe extend that to archives of related usernames.

But if you really nuke and start over you’re fine, people just aren’t that motivated. Your own witness protection program.

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Re:Archive Your Reddit Data Before It's Too Late by wkat4242 on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:40PM (#36263065)

Oh yeah I'm sure they are but it was more about the feeling of it. I wish more platforms offered this.

I rotate all my accounts every year or so, same with this one.

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