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This has been a strange year.

  • meat_popsicle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Good point, and this raises an interesting topic: is there much value to old data from a link aggregator like Reddit when so many services are no longer available and the old links go nowhere?

    Services like Facebook or Twitter are seemingly not as exposed to that type of issue since they’re less reliant on external content.

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      1 year ago

      Nope, not really. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found a really old reddit thread with links I wanna check out only for them to be dead. With the services reddit rely on for content going down, this is only going to accelerate.