How would people feel about a new Magazine which is dedicated to archiving Reddit posts, comments and general history?
How would people feel about a new Magazine which is dedicated to archiving Reddit posts, comments and general history?
With all the talk about posts being lost due to people deleting comments, posts, and subs going private or generally protesting, I wondered if people have an appetite for doing some work to move key bits of reddit history over to kbin/Lemmy for posterity?
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I have to admit I find all this talk of copying and backing up other people's content to be a bit odd.
When reddit restores our content after we delete it, we get angry - it was my content to delete as I wish, how dare they reverse my decision? When our content is monetized for more than server costs+a bit of profit, we get angry - we made that content, we don't mind you covering your costs and earning a living, but why do you get to get filthy rich from it? When our posts are quoted for pseudonews articles mining comments for opinions, we're taken aback -- excuse you, you could have at least asked if you could quote my story about my most embarrassing whathaveyou.
We get angry about these things because we feel a sense of ownership over what we post. And I don't really see the difference here - this is another form of removing content from the control of its creators. If people want to copy their own stuff over, that's fine! But I would never dream of removing that choice from the original poster.
Yes, reddit's collective knowledge was valuable, and yes, there are some large-scale operations to preserve the internet in things like the wayback machine, the datahoarders backup, and other efforts... but these doesn't mean we should also start a grassroots movement to disrespect ownership of content on top of all that's already in place.
That's a fair assessment, I guess it would be hard to store whatever was considered to be important without some sort of GDPR style impact.