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There are plenty of reddit message archives out there. I often stumble upon mutilated reddit threads while looking for a solution for some technical problem. Th
by throwaway8941 6y ago
There are plenty of reddit message archives out there. I often stumble upon mutilated reddit threads while looking for a solution for some technical problem. The only thing shreddit does is wasting a few more minutes of my time.
Edit: why the downvotes? I am genuinely interested. Shreddit does not protect you from anything, it's only an illusion. I think more people should be aware of that.
- DavidPeiffer 6y agoEven if it's not perfect, it's a significant step towards removing discoverability. The Google crawling will eventually drop the content associated with the username, making it massively more difficult for someone to dig up past history. A motivated individual could still dig things up, but many people (even most users of reddit) are unfamiliar with the archives out there.
- Sylamore 6y agoThe issue is that regardless of Google/Bing caches, there are sites like Pushbullet that archive ALL comments and posts that were made on Reddit, with APIs that savvy people can use to check deleted/edited comments. Awareness of these archives seems to be spreading through Reddit.
- klyrs 6y agoThere are quite a few HN mirrors out there, too https://hacker-news-example.factor.dev/ https://hacker-news-example.factor.dev/ https://hn.matthewblode.com/ https://hn.matthewblode.com/ https://nilaykhandelwal.com https://nilaykhandelwal.com https://innerself-hn.com/ https://innerself-hn.com/ I'm not really sure why people would do this, except perhaps some seo shenanigans?