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finding deleted info from Reddit.

If you Google something and the results you need is on a reddit page but you’re unable to view for any reason, such as the user deleting the post or the sub going dark, there is a work around to get the info you need. Copy the link from Google and In your web browsers search bar/ URL bar type Cache: followed by the URL you...

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or just go to archive.org and use the wayback machine. newer posts need some fudgery to find the comments since archiveteam snatches content right as it is posted and due to that comments are only reachable via their link

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at least java minecraft does that part right with the offline mode that switches off auth checks. for a real online server you need a login plugin then (makes sense that some form of username ownership verify is needed in that case) but for a secured LAN it is usable by default.

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same. saved my ass already a few times when doing some reverseengineering voodoo. being able to set a valid https cert makes it easier to redirect apps than to bypass forced HTTPS. had to pretend to be a update server for something once and patching the URL was enough via getting a cert quickly (using DNS-01 challenge, no exposed ports ever)

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Good thing is that the content is not lost for those that know to surf the web. But those locations don't help reddit at all (main one is the wayback machine from archive.org and then there is a raw datadump of anyhting up to march 2023 as JSON)

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you can use a secondary firefox profile. starting firefox with the --no-remote -p switches allows to load it alongside the main profile (-p loads the profile manager and --no-remote suppresses the "open new window in existing profile" behavior

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Lets hope that federation gets a backfill/resync mode, too so first subscriber doesnt get a empty magazine/community.

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in the usual syntax it would be written as @soccer@kbin.social or !soccer@kbin.social (that syntax gets translated to the local form by the instance renderer). Lemmy uses the ! form usually

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leave the old content intact, there is a archival ongoing from archiveteam on reddit. (shreddit channel on hackint irc, or https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Reddit ). That data goes straight into the wayback machine (raw data is available, too for those that can crunch through it)

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the "undefined" is a empty JS variable stringified. thats why it only happens when you click too fast. for the backend its a legitimate word

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Before all the drama I had pointed to many friends that most discourse and live interaction on my regular subreddits had already moved to discord. The unified ui and functioning search make it more useful.

But discoverability is zero for that content. discord is "deep web" which is not indexable at all by search engines.

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I still don't feel there is any fediverse instance which feels as clean, elegant, and unclaustrophobic as the old.reddit.com UI. Whether that's just my own aversion to change or a legitimate comment on the quality of old.reddit I'm not sure, but there are some aspects of the UIs that are unquestionably rough, like full page loads which could be replaced with AJAX.

+1 on that. old.reddit (combined with the sub-specific CSS) is something that somehow needs to be ported over to the lemmy/kbin side, too. new reddit was too much wasted space and non-loaded stuff for me (old had more comments loaded by default)

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that user didnt notice the fact that kbin and lemmy can talk together, same protocol underlying.

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or for anything past 2021 the wayback machine should have it, too.

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This is the Siemens EQ900.

This baby runs .

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@bagder Can it run Doom?

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Element is only one of the clients for the matrix network. And as long as it follows the standard you can use other clients, too

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And you only get limited servers per account. And archive.org coverage is important since thats the one location that we can rely on for old data

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But even this has limits, since sometimes the data can be necessary for a service (for example, you might be unable to get invoice data erased before X years, as a legal requirement)

But then it still needs to be marked as a "DO NOT TOUCH". you aren't allowed to use it then for any other purpose.

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cloudflare was the reason why federation was borked. federation communications is server<-->server traffic and that can't pass the bot filter

Long and short term, which features would you like to see implemented?

For me flair is probably the most important. I follow a lot of organized sports and being able to quickly identify which team someone supports helps the conversation move along without having to write "as a fan of..." in every single comment. And this isn't a like talking shit, sports guy thing. It's genuinely extremely useful...

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Image expandos (if image is hotlinked directly) can be done for any site. explicit support is only needed for when you need to wiggle the information out

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Reddit's CSS feature was per-sub

Edit: And it didnt rely on a extension (some browsers don't have stylus (points at apple i-devices) or in the future it breaks for some reason)

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Backup has entered the chat...

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There is a archival running that works on getting all of reddit into the wayback machine. 40% or so of the pre-2021 posts was gotten in the 2 weeks before blackout

DorianSnowball, to random

Playing Tron at

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@DorianSnowball Bit late but got curious: what was your bot username?

had played all days, too under same username as used here

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@DorianSnowball Had similar issues at saturday morning where a rewrite failed hard.... luckily i had the friday evening state captured safely for rollback via git. https://github.com/masterX244/GPNBots if you are curious to peek at how my bot worked (especially the magic that i used to avoid spooling up in a dead end

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