Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.
I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.
It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.
The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.
I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.
I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.
That IPO of theirs is going so well.
Time to start building all that library of knowledge on the fediverse
That’s why I saved a backup of my comments before I edited/wiped them all on Reddit.
When I get time I’ll go through all 10 years worth of the backup to find information I can share again here.
Exactly. Waiting for some communities to get formed (I don’t want to run them or be a moderator). Some have started but low activity, especially in the health genre.
I’m really excited for the fediverse. I also knew that patience would prevail on lemmy world as they deal with growth. Today has been amazing to see all the updates they did to improve performance.
Finding all sorts of cool stuff on many instances to subscribe to. I’m actually starting to like this more than Reddit w/Apollo which is crazy to even say.
I find it problematic that Reddit thinks it can just sell all the content it’s users created. I like that people are deleting everything, making the site less useful, but it is sad losing all of that knowledge. I hope it reappears in the fediverse.
Imagine if Wikipedia changed its financial model. That would be a major, major problem.
I stripped years of posts off of r/vans when I realized my submissions were almost always the top results on Google images when searching basic keywords (not gaming the search). I’ve built [email protected] here and I’ve been posting my content from reddit here.
The thought of leaving my content on reddit and driving further traffic to that site just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Imagine my surprise hoping to see some sweet converted rides and got sneaks, lol.
I should buy a pair though.
It’s crazy how some of the communications from their CEO has been.
He clearly thinks he owns all the content on the platform and even called the third party app users ‘freeloaders’ when a ton of them were top contributors to the platform.
Stupid me thinking that buying awards for excellent content was the only compensation Reddit needed (along with memberships).
Boy was I wrong. I’m hoping Lemmy World will get awards that we can award others to help offset server costs.
I think the current method is better. You can subscribe / donate to main developers working on Lemmy and assist with their server costs. Donation links are accessible on Lemmy’s github page.
I think the mentality at reddit leadership has changed just about 180° since it started. It’s not just Steve Huffman, although he is leading it.
Originally they were part of building a community, and users were part of that community.
Now they have become an ordinary business, who believe they are providing a service that should not just be sustainable but monetized as much as possible, and users are no longer a real community, but merely users of a service for profit. No different from Google, Facebook, Twitter etc.
But it’s a simple service, not more than a fancy forum, where users provide the content. It’s doubtful the service is valuable enough, to allow drawing out much money on advertising before users go elsewhere. And when the users go, so does the content, which can easily turn into a death spiral.
It’s basically Usenet with nicer formatting :)
This is what stopped me from doing it. I always feel like if I’ve helped make one person’s day a little bit better, then I’ve done my bit as a human.
I know how good it is when you have a really complex, niche, problem and someone gives the answer you exactly needed, and I don’t want to take that away from the public, even though a company I don’t support is profiting off my comments and submissions.
Yeah I feel the same as a big preservationist. I feel that I got value from Reddit before, now I don’t anymore but that doesn’t take away what I benefitted from previously.
So instead I edited my top 30 comments and added something to the effect of “As of Jul 2023 I’m on lemmy kthxbye”.
When you can’t trust the company not to paywall your contribution or hold it hostage, it’s time to sever ties and do what you can to kill the platform. Every new contribution to Reddit is a further waste of our collective efforts. The sooner the platform dies the sooner contributors move somewhere else where their posts will be in safer hands.
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I can’t imagine reading through a full TOS. I know I should be, but damn, I wouldn’t have much time for anything else in life if I read all these ridiculously long TOS that companies put out.
10 years of angularjs, angulat, react, and c# answers to problems just disapeared from reddit last week as i wiped all my accounts
As a developer, this hits deep. RIP quality answers & search results for c# (in my case) related quedtions
Many are waiting for their data takeout requests to complete before doing the same. And to follow up with GDPR requests/GDPR deletion requests.
All to improve their quarter numbers pre-IPO.
I don’t trust reddit admins to comply with anything. I used this chrome plugin to overwrite all my comments with gibberish, then they were deleted. This plugin uses your browser, not the API. You need to keep a browser tab open to your profile while it runs. But the admins cannot stop you from using this by blocking it in the API, as they have done for similar software.
If you don’t trust the reddit admins, why do you think that they wouldn’t keep a history of your comments, and just revert the gibberishification?
Yup. They refused to pay me for my comments and posts so I overwrote and deleted them all before deleting my account.
Yep! Sync and (for the first few years) BaconReader brought me to Reddit. Not Reddit. I have several high karma accounts that are a decade plus. Nuked all of my comments and posts today, and now they’re up for sale!
I have noticed more and more [deleted] messages in older threads lately. I was trying to do some Rimworld modding, and the threads relevant to my questions were 1-5 years old, ~20 upvotes, and 2-3 positively voted top level comments. Almost all of them had a [deleted] comment.
I deleted my reddit account yesterday. I figured what’s a better way to celebrate Independence Day by deleting my reddit account while watching fireworks and drinking a beer.
Of course, I used power delete to remove my comments before deleting my account.
I would recommend still sending a GDPR delete request if you are in EU just to be sure, since there may be stuff left behind in private communities, backups etc. It also forces reddit and their partners to delete data they use for advertising.
Little bonus, it is annoying for reddit to process GDPR requests.
I sent a GDPS request for my information in order to have an archive of my posts to look through and enjoy, perhaps remix and repost on here if possible. Apparently I submitted it while people were attempting to overwhelm reddit by mass requesting them, so idk if it will be approved
There’s no will in there. They must give you your data or else. The only thing they can do is to notify you of a required extension because they are overwhelmed. Sans that, they are obliged by law to give you what’s yours.
In the UK, requests can sometimes be denied
Something something actions and consequences.
When did you submit your request? I sent mine on the 22nd and they still haven’t replied. I’m thinking of reporting them to my country’s privacy authority if they don’t comply before 22/07.
I made a post about a niche subject. It is one of the top 3 google results and the only in depth review, outside of YouTube. Deleted it last week. Feelsgood.mpeg
Thanks for the heads up, this is like the 10th time ive had to run power delete.
I’m still waiting for them to send me my data before I erase. There’s just no way I can manually go through 10+ years to see if there’s any info I want to keep copies of. But now I’m wondering what happens if they never respond to my data request. Before rif went dark I saw a lot of others saying they never got a response.
I did not get a response yet. They still have 3 weeks before it is a GDPR breach. I am on a vacation but when I get home, I will resend my requests via email to have proof and forward to EU regulators if they miss the deadline.
I don’t have a response either yet… Might get interesting!
I got mine today! A few irl friends that use reddit also just received theirs. Might be worth checking!
Just overwrote everything in the old account; will set the system to delete everything tonight and then a 10-year-old account is done. I will keep the account for a while longer, should they decide to restore anything I’ve deleted.
Deleted my 13 years of comments and posts recently. Just gonna leave this here for folks… https://www.playerup.com/accounts/redditaccount/
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In case anyone mistakes that link for how I deleted my comments: I used power delete suite.
I didn’t know you could sell your Reddit account. I deleted posts and comments on my 4 year old account with over 14k karma.
Wow! Wow… Oh, I could get enough for a new game.
I deleted all comments from my 2 latest Reddit accounts, 5 digits karma. If I ever revisit Reddit it’s though as blocked browser without an account.
I just did the same thing. I deleted all my posts and comments on my 14k karma account. I’ll be keeping the account though, just for the memories.
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Because Reddit is still a recent ex
I didn’t decide to break up with reddit. I was happy with reddit. Reddit dumped me.
We were together 11 years man! I can’t let go!
I do have to admit I felt a little bad when Digg started sending “We miss you” emails, but I held my ground.
Nothing insane, but I had a 8 year account with 150k karma that I earned through informative posts, endearing pictures of my pug, and a few shitposts here and there. Banned for zero reason (yes i know, but seriously) by a mod that had an “in” with a Reddit admin, i’m sure of it.
Anyways, just went and deleted it, after it being a very, very constant in my life. Its been quite the cathartic experience, and somewhat freeing even. Mobile and reddit are a dangerous combination for the thinkers out there.
150k karma that I earned
Actually, this is one of the biggest issues with Reddit - assuming Karma has value and getting narcissistic feedback.
I got more than that replying to DadJokes with a quickly googled PUN once per day.
I have 650k comment karma on my profile. Time to delete my comments that were so helpful.
