cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19946388
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/19946388
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
Pointless vandalism. The original comments are already archived, this will accomplish nothing except make Google results even worse for people.
I’m down for that as well. It’s their info, and they can do with it as they please. I have no right to it, unless they allow it. I totally understand the frustration of not finding the info you want, but I still support the practice.
It sucks that’s where we are, but WE didn’t steer the ship here. Now we just need to play ball within the confines given to us.
And one of the things they did with that info was to license it to Reddit, who is now authorized to do what they please with it. No backsies.
Right on, no need for concern about missing data then. Problem averted.
Reddit has the data. AI trainers have the data. Ordinary people Googling for help with their obscure problems get the junk it was overwritten with.
Which is bad in the short termine, but good in the long term, as that means less traffic to Reddit. Ultimately that means that in the long term Reddit will pay the consequences for the actions it has taken.
Exactly my thoughts, and it’s why I haven’t stopped using the site. This doesn’t hurt reddit at all, it only hurts people who want answers to obscure questions. What sucks is that the kind of person who knows what bug causes someone’s Dell Inspiron D630 makes a beeping noise every 23 seconds is exactly the kind of person who’s going to have all of their comments replaced with AI poison.
Which makes them people less likely to trust Reddit with answers…
So they go to Reddit less often…
Which hurts Reddit.
There used to be other ways to find out the RAM went bad. Like Dell’s site, for example.
So much for that. Now they just want everyone to opt in to spam, and buy new devices whenever a simple problem arises.
I think you might want to reconsider getting vandalism as your analogy.
You can’t vandalize your own property, and any comment or post you make is your words.
It would be like telling a writer they can’t edit their own work. That’s not vandalism, it’s removing the limited license granted to reddit for your copyrighted material.
You absolutely can vandalize your own work. People are destroying posts they made that other people find useful, purely out of spite.
Reddit may allow it, it may be totally legal, but that doesn’t make a difference to my opinion that it’s petty vandalism.
Go ahead and downvote away, that doesn’t change anything either.
Dude. If it’s yours, anything you do to it is editing. Vandalism defaces something that belongs to someone else.
I spray paint my tag on my own house, it’s likely ugly as hell, but it ain’t vandalism. You tag my house, that’s vandalism.
You can have the opinion you want, there’s a shit ton of bad opinions in the world, and we all have at least one ;)
As a protest eaasure it has a lot of value. Far more than blacking a subreddit for 2 days.