I just remembered that there are torrents with crawled text from reddit. I wonder if there's a way to browse local data like that like you would with a search engine? Reddit's value is in old content anyway. I never tried it myself but there are tools to browse wikipedia locally like that iirc.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2026
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hot take: Reddit has been a “logged-in-only experience” since i started using it 15 years ago. default subs and front page have always been trash brainrot, and the real value of Reddit has always been in niche communities, ie a curated user-specific homepage.
that said, their incessant insistence on brainrot like AITA and AskReddit got me off that platform years ago at this point.
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Fuck AI, but I can literally use Cursor to build a wrapper to view reddit in old reddit, no account needed. It's easy. Also fuck spez and all of his nazi loving admins.
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Totally unaffected. Haven't even visited that site for several years.