Use your favourite search engine, search " reddit". Whatever search results pop up, those threads should be old enough to be archived over at Internet Archive or archive.is. Install Resurrect Pages addon in web browser. Open your reddit search results, and Resurrect Pages gives you the option to open their archived versions. If the "reddit.com/..." archive cannot be found, scroll to an older version if available. You can also modify URL to "old.reddit.com/..." to see if archived version exists.

You can find more or less any relevant threads if you use a combination of Google, Bing and Yandex with that search-fu. You can also use Searx, Baidu, Startpage or any other search engine for this trick.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been linking this text fairly often, but I think that it's worth a read. People might be focusing on the blackout but that's just the "now" - with or without blackouts, Reddit is a ticking bomb bound to eventually explode, and all the information there will be lost when it does.

And the fact that people have been relying on Reddit to look for information shows even deeper issues, not just with Reddit but the internet. Let's see...

Google monopoly over the search market. Why would it need to make its product better, if you're still going to use it?
Corporations always trying to prevent you from reaching the best result (because it won't lead you to their product), and engaging on an arms race through search engine optimisation. That's why people did that "reddit" trick.
The encroachment of the ad industry into the internet. Oh look, I found the content that I wanted... no wait it's another ad. Move on...
Governments more often pandering to corporations than defending the best interests of their taxpayers, and the legislation on what's allowed or disallowed on the internet suffering in result of that.
Reddit monopoly over discussions.
People sharing info in Reddit instead of through more resilient forms of digital media, as shown in the link.