Would it be possible to "replicate" all (or most) existing reddit content to bootstrap a new system?
Not sure if all data is available anywhere? (Common crawl? Those big internet scrapes used to train language models?)
Not sure if all data is available anywhere? (Common crawl? Those big internet scrapes used to train language models?)
[1] https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd87...
(I also imagine something like >95% of all Reddit content was produced in-between 2012 and 2023.)
Most of the value that I derive from older content is being able to recontextualize it for the present day, especially with extremely niche stuff.
However, user hostility from Reddit itself is likely going to lead to an exodus of power users, just like with Twitter post-acquisition. It might not be huge numbers of people quitting, but they're meaningful users, which are a sad loss community-wise. Especially if you assume that way more people just view a platform than actually post things on it, which is apparently vastly skewed in that way for most platforms; "lurkers".