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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I removed my content on that site in protest, and will continue to do so as it creeps back in right up to the day when either my every last comment is scrubbed, or I am locked out of my accounts.

No quarter.

[-] Evono@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Should check if it stays removed, reddit started to restore removed comments and posts and even removed edits

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been watching and sweeping up after subs come back online.

[-] Killer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Don't just delete your comments, use a script to over write them.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I used power delete suite and edited the comments to read, "This content was removed by its creator in protest of Reddit's planned API changes effective July 2023."

[-] TechnoBabble@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

My comments are processing to do the same now.

Thousands of comments, so gonna take a while.

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

As another user pointed out, Reddit started reverting the changes made by scripts like Shreddit. Users that had previously overwritten their content this way must check if it's still gone.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If the sub was locked, it seems the changes to the comments didn't take.

Now some subs are starting to consider mass changes as spam, but for my own account I am down to a trickle I can edit by hand easily enough.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I got a few spam warnings when I swept my account with Redact, even though I was removing content instead of posting it.

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's true, but it is also happening with subreddits that were most definitely open and where users had previously confirmed the comment or post was edited.