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regn, 1 hour ago to random

one very sad thing that happened with reddit (and probably also with stackoverflow) is that people somehow decided that deleting their comments was the best solution for protesting like it was going to change someones mind. they just made searching for past information a pain and the company still ended up getting money while still killing it slowly.

a better form of protest would have been a mirror of the information somewhere else and make some kind of collective effort to make it a direct replacement for it (the archive, not the live site) and avoid having to go through a chain of only "deleted" comments. we are very aware this would require an enormous effort and if we had that kind of organization the problem would probably had not exist anymore tho, but we are very frustrated about this alot.

this really boils down on having all information in a central place owned by a corporation that can do whatever it wants to do with it is very very bad idea, but now is SO or discord or other 20 sites we are not aware of, so doubt it will change in the short term.