this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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I can see why people who volunteered their own time to put together informational posts and tutorials don't want Reddit to benefit from them. I just hope they copy those threads into a new post on one of these Lemmy/kbin sites, but sadly that probably won't happen.
The loss of information like this is nothing new. When Geocities shut down, a lot of Web 1.0 era sites were lost forever. Various internet forums have shut down over the years taking all of their old posts with them. Link rot is another issue with sites like Imgur deleting old content. This is why sites like the Internet Archive are so important. They are the library of the internet.