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    Reddit is a trove of user built content under the guise of community. What Spez did was to say “thanks for all the free work, suckers!, put a price sticker on it, and laughed all the way to the bank.

    And this is why I’m not active on any Internet community anymore. Nevermind, I guess I just can’t help myself

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      And this is why I’m not active on any Internet community anymore,

      you typed.

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        Active as in “creating meaningful contributions and contributing to the overall knowledge base”. I still shit post from time to time.

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          This is going to be a really weird thing to argue, but I just casually read through a bunch of your comments and they seem like meaningful contributions.

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        Somebody asked chat GPT to appear to be a normal internet user to populate the comments section to manufacture content for normal Internet users to respond to so that they can continue building up their training models.

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        You couldn’t see the sarcasm because it was set to “hidden”.

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      And that is another unintended example of why all of my post history was purged before migration.

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        What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?

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          Some 4chan users created a backup bot that auto saves every few hours, so if reddit didn’t do it already, 4chan has been doing it for a while. The bot was originally made for 4chan but repurposed for other websites, reddit included.

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          Yeah, it’s all too late. Shit, PRISM was 2007, so there’s a copy of everything somewhere. Obviously different ends.

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            Spez like people are even capable of leeching archive.org and still sell the data which was archived for good intentions.

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          Depends. If they were smart they backed up every content that had a certain number of upvotes and/or a certain number of paragraphs and/or responses. Just to weed out all the 2-3 word comments that no one interacted with. If OP wrote mostly those then Reddit gives a shit about them deleting those.

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      Don’t cheat yourself just because there are douches that take advantage