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.
Will Google searches eventually link to lemmy? I don’t really know how this site works, but I would assume that could grow the site more than anything else would.
My Google search today linked to a technology@lemmy.ml post so it’s happening
That’s absolutely awesome!
Now you just have to start weaning yourself off Google - it’s more evil than Reddit.
i really doubt it. there is not much impact on reddit and the protest showed that, before 3p apps shut down.
That’s an interesting perspective, but I’m not really asking about Reddit. I’m wondering about how Lemmy can grow on its own
thats true, i kind of taken your comment out of context. i just assume thats the general conversation.
My opinion is that, rather than thinking it can instantly aggregate the web, it would be the best solution for anyone wanting to get a group of people with common interests together in a relatively safe place.
For you as a personal user, the protest might have been an inconvenience at most, but I don’t know about the impact it had on potential investors. Think about it this way: would you invest in a new IPO when their users, who provide all of the content and moderation, are willing to subvert the whole premise of the company? I surely fucking wouldn’t.
willing to but couldn’t do it?
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.
Yeah, Reddit loves upvoting their Puns. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t get an inflated sense of self from the karma, but it was important to me as someone who mostly posted content and not comments.
Enjoying lemmy a lot right now though, including the new client I found for mobile.
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.
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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.
I assume there’s at least someone out there who has a full download of Wikipedia on their computer, ready to go up as soon as the website decides it wants to go to shit.
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 !vans@lemmy.world 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.
Haha that would occasionally happen on r/vans. Was always great when someone posted an actual van without checking the sub out first.
I love your approach and hope it becomes the model for others. Anyone that contributes a lot should build a community that is not attached to any of the main for profit social media companies.
never found this community on reddit, but im glad you’re here, seems like a fun time. /subscribe
Awesome! Happy to have you!
I was pleasantly surprised to see sneakers instead of vans like the car. I subbed thanks to you. Thank you!
Don’t think it’s lost, I think /r/DataHoarders saved a raw copy.
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.
Right? Completely disregarding the fact that all content is user generated and moderated by volunteers. I raged when I saw that statement.
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.
He also said the mods - the ones who provide all the unpaid labor to moderate everything posted by unpaid content contributors - act like “landed gentry”. It’s almost like he’s trying to piss everyone off.
In a lot of subs it was like that though, to be fair.
Some mods go around collecting subs like cards. I’ve seen certain subs where the mods didn’t really bother protesting, or even did protests that actually drove traffic and platform engagement (r/awww and r/videos) because the thought of being removed from their positions of power was too much to handle.
These kind of mods felt like they ‘owned’ the subreddit in the same way spez thought he ‘owned’ everything. It was not free labour for them, they loved doing it and controlling content streams. If they were asked to pay money to stay as mod, they probably would.
Sorry if this post offends any of the good mods. If you are more likely to say ‘the sub I moderate’ over ‘my sub’ then you are probably one of the good ones, my statements don’t apply, and the whole ‘landed gentry’ thing is incredibly offensive.
More users should take all their contributions off. Especially if they are informative big posts. Reddit served as a platform that many people trusted, now it’s gone to a for profit model and blindsided all the people that never signed up for that.
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”.
I don’t know why your approach didn’t occur to me but that’s a great idea. Deleting all my content would pain me both as someone who has been able to help people with my posts and as a digital anthropologist, but making it known why I’m no longer engaging with the platform while preserving that content is a good balance between disengaging and purging.
This is a better solution in my view 👍
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.
Wikipedia entre database is open for download. It’s under a license which means that anyone may host another Wikipedia clone at any time.
Don’t worry about data from Wikipedia - it should be safe. Totally different beast than Reddit.
Yup, I usually download a snapshot every year or so. It’s more because I feel ways about digital archival, but it’s super convenient to be able to access that information offline as well.
I went and deleted 15 years of reddit comments and posts, editing them before deleting. End of an era for me
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 :)
Yup. They refused to pay me for my comments and posts so I overwrote and deleted them all before deleting my account.
Time to start building all that library of knowledge on the fediverse
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.
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.
It’s hard to imagine the library of Alexandria had more info than Reddit
The Library of Alexandria burned down. So can Reddit.
It hurts my soul knowing all of this useful content was removed from reddit.
I’ve moved on to Lemmy, but I’m having a hard time removing everything from reddit. I know with so many people removing their old posts/replies that it will definitely hurt reddit, so many googled content won’t be there.
It would be cool if we could transfer our old posts here in some sort of meaningful way, but I don’t see how that could happen in a way that makes sense.
Libreddit.hu has been super helpful. No user log in; can subscribe to subreddits via cookies and it doesn’t give Reddit any traffic. I use it to browse some subs like Credibledefense
I think for now, you can export your content. Perhaps in the future someone will create a tool to reimport those on lemmy.
is it possible to locally backup all my comments and posts? I just want to save some important stuff throughout the years before overwriting all of it.
If you GDPR request your data from Reddit you can use the following tool to access your user profile
I’ve seen a couple people complain that reddit is ignoring it, and even restoring their deleted posts.
Gotta keep up appearances so people cant see the steaming pile of shit is rotting away, i guess.
Power Delete Suite has an option to save all content it deletes in a CSV before it does any deletions.
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This is false. The amount of people who are ready to pay microtransactions for some dumb meaningless feature is absurd. Reddit can and will make money out of those normies.
I don’t remember checking up on Digg after the exodus. Not sure why you guys keep talking about reddit like it was a recent ex
Because Reddit is still a recent ex
I do have to admit I felt a little bad when Digg started sending “We miss you” emails, but I held my ground.
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I didn’t decide to break up with reddit. I was happy with reddit. Reddit dumped me.
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.
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.
Wow! Wow… Oh, I could get enough for a new game.
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.
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
AI is your friend! I already use a mix of Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT for the really difficult problems. I just do tier 2 support, though.
Don’t worry, chatGPT and other AIs have already trained off of reddit and probably hold that information
Hopefully Lemmy starts to fill that hole in as more people join and more questions asked then answered.
The thing is - when I gave good answers, I mostly wrote them in Obsidian - so that I have Marktext files with my most interesting answers anyway.
So they haven’t gone, they just don’t exist inside Reddit any more. Anyone with the same questions could still get them - if there were an equivalent alternative to whatever subreddit exists.
In the case of Linux answers, however, I don’t give a toss - because one of the worst things about Reddit is that the best repository of information for any distribution should be the official forum for that distribution… and interestingly, I suffered zero pain using my official forum, whilst Reddit mods seem to enjoy kicking you out for a day or three for telling someone to format queries in a useful way.
Congrats on becoming the dead mediafire link that fixed the next 5 replies.
Yeah, mine was more related to Shopify, eCommerce and health matters. Your stuff was highly technical and took time to share. I still say bravo.
Isn’t it a bit egotistical to watch how Google rates your Reddit comments? Maybe you deserve to get them deleted if you treat them as a means of domination rather than information.
I deleted them. And no, it’s an observation after trying to figure out why I was getting DMs from 3 year old and older posts. That’s why I know they were ranking and getting traffic.
Legend
Did the same, but it feels wrong. Months/Years later someone build a transition for bring all your reddit stuff to Lemmy. But it’s already lost.
