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submitted 1 year ago by Tygr@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 111 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 18 points 1 year ago

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.

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

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".

[-] DaveX64@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

This is a better solution in my view 👍

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

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.

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

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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