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I was thinking that since most people here left Reddit for whatever reason - despite it being inconvenient - then having strong principles and actually sticking to them might be a common theme among the userbase here.

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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Indeed there is. Initially I tried to delete my account and I wrote in the "why are you leaving?" field when you close an account that "Hup-ho, it was time to go, good bye and good luck.." It was NOT a "please reconsider" appeal.

The deletion would NOT go through, then a day later I got the "appeal rejected" letter claiming it was approved by a person. I did NOT appeal.

So at that point I realized that something was definitely up with AI on the site beyond the comment bots and I pivoted to removing every bit of content I put in.

Got all my posts, but the comments on other users posts - well you only get access to what you put up in the prior year - a change that dropped with the IPO. before that, you could tunnel down into your comment history all the way back to your first one.

Also, as I was deleting, there was a weird resistance where I only got access to three pages worth of comments before the browser would get locked out and I'd get the account banned page with nothing else. I had - at the time - multiple junker laptops with active logins - so I'd switch up to those devices and continue on. Took several hours over three evenings to clear out that full year of comments I'd made that I could still access. Everything before October 2024 however, is inaccessible.. unless a bot (it HAS to be a bot being trained, nothing else - certainly not another user - can access archived posts and unarchive and comment on them..) happens to reply on a comment.

At that point I'm on it like a terrier on a rat.

[–] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Got all my posts, but the comments on other users posts - well you only get access to what you put up in the prior year - a change that dropped with the IPO.

I didn’t realize they did that, that’s super shady. They also made it so you can choose to make it so that other users can’t see your post history. Makes it difficult to find out who the bots are