I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all
But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?
Re: an archive - if you have the hard drive space, there’s a ~2 TB torrent of PushShift’s Reddit backup from 2005 to 12/22, with Jan, Feb, and March 2023 up on Internet Archive.
I haven’t looked too deeply for tooling to interface with the data yet (compressed json) but I expect it’s mostly focused on machine learning or large data analysis, rather than browsing and searching. Still, with so many 10+ year users doing the “overwrite and delete your comments” combo (which will be me come June 29/30), it comforts my data-hoarding soul to even have the potential to dig into the archive for anything I might want to reference in the future.